Evening Star Newspaper, May 5, 1931, Page 8

WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, MAY & THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. THE EVENING aside, and & short cut teken to the!as chairman of the Republican Na- simple goal represented in the pupils|tional Committee. And why should ability to “play somethi§.” That, of | he not? Some one, it is quite obvious, Sourse, is the quickest way to stimulate |must speak as chairman if the head and retain the pupils interesr, The ! of that organization is not to maintain a youngster who can read the notes and | the silence of the grave. STAR, THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. ..May 5, 1031 BOOKS AT RANDOM 1 G M. NEW ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. ‘The Ohio Senator became chairman ‘This is a speetal department devoted 3 YES.... play on his fiddle some of the simple ko um’f‘ melodies without knowing how to con- struct & minor scale may have his mul:al education at the wrong end. But he gets more enjoyment out of the process than he would by spend- ing dismal afternoons trylng to memo- rize the number of sharps In the scale of B major. Children in school learn to read sentences these days before they are taught their ABC's, and there have been as radical departures in the theories of the teaching of music. If | the result will be to produce & general, Maryilaind aad Virginia. 11f limited, appreciation of music b 31000 1 mo. gse | *Umulating mcre interest in music, the e L, ! number of real musicians thus made 1s ooty - 1300 3400, 1 mo. 40c | R i o | of mipor fmportance. These are born, ily and Sunday.. .1yr.8$1200° 1 mo. $1 00 snd not produ by any system. Elld'."m)‘l"’“y wave 1yr, 3800 1w K —_— .o —_— n % { The Other Fellow's Viewpoint. Member of the Associated Press. | b " Lidh i The Associated Precs s exclusiveiv erisiled ! este:day two Balkan Kings—Alex- u“:r..l-. us-'m- uru‘l:’uhh e of | ‘Jf'."" - auder of Jugoslavia and Carol of Ru- ¥hia ba g atso Siens mania -went boat-riding on the Danube ted in this paper and alio tne loce 5 P! ed herein iehis of publication of “They met by appoint- | =lls us, and RiChes Dierein ave also 1esened. | near Bucharest. { ment, the Associated Press t. amid such & desire for privacy that . ithey paddled, ms it were, their own Interesting as are the courl's re- 5 flectiony on the subject of “expert wit- ‘T;‘;’;I“":‘;"‘;fi"‘;“: 011:::.“::& ;“:f ness” testimony generally, there are | 25t ; her tmportans points emphaclsed. 1n | MANA sccompunied their respective connection with Justice Hitz's decision r:’""f‘"f s ';"t’h“"d e 1n the Court of Appeals agalust the ad- | P4¢ conierente of ‘helr et o 8" missibllity of such testimony on the | 3renrt WTE HEXAN e part of the District assessor. The case | °m tntocuons: bit: ‘o intesnationsl involved condemnation of land for the | ! x;~nl:p~ Yttt Abtiodevpia District's use. Followlng what has come ' ;0" enisodes which since time Imme- to & pretty well established procedure, i o0 has got gli chanceileries in Eu- rope to guessing in anxi:ty and alarm. the District assessor was called as sn ! expert witness. The court held that About the time the Balkan rulers had h‘c;“"““’ ot testify In that capacty $n | 1uci heads together, the President of m"n c:::flely recognized,” said Justice | v an :,u ;en;!:l:' ‘nmo; s | mentous message the International :fl:-. leidtodihin i Mo v:vzuiu amber of Commerce.” Ta welghter or the purpose X before used on the ation are not reliable guides of market ::,".,',‘:‘;."‘.‘{,”,‘f.,:ff.' warned the world— Yalie and consequently not sdmissible though, of course, he was tilting mainly hfi"&:"‘;;‘;‘:;t“:r‘émumm the tag | Burope—that drastic reduction of e e ey e aratoent A} the foondllion pracedint fo e Sl i s A st s i e and s 0 | your tieasiire on) ships and guns, corre- ards seeks to do. Comparison of assess- | s st ek s K wil on the roa s :;::. Px:‘ :L*“lm‘l‘;“.‘::]’) "::::r P"‘:"“‘:[-ua not. until then”—such, in substance, e el bl s sl e | wawuueialiyice tAuaersd Lo e pRplaly the ;ver-n of the assessments. iut“’r sttt dible in 1) the oourtar o Anybody elae, Weredin: |, o S N A i0 e G Retlehtyars | wecomBoE afeTn e ma iomaTiC S Ry ol e e Lt NGt itire | Do Tollowing {Une President'st wadecar. p b gl s gl ndngre sy | Men could be heard saying that they demnation juries. The value of ymp-““”"":1 g A s St ‘;ch:;‘,?:; of light an ading on e Cl erty would be the mssessment for tax- (b oL b oy them o these | ation, and the assessment would be the | hori- o ""3’ i"vfi:‘x xl: trr‘:e“u:‘:lo:dm;:e;u:mn | [ tative ‘h‘:r" ¢ m;uct":mf’m:o"; i:‘l:f:w’: ‘:‘: « keynote which, they consider, is only {n & constant state of nervous anxlely [FeOLElY associated with the yorld's by seeking to apply . A jury con- |economic woes. 1t is hardly to be ex-| demns land for public use at & p,,celpgcua that some delegate from abroad greatly in excess of the assessment,|ill Hob selse & guitable opportunity to Throwing to the wind such factors ul;i"‘y to ""‘ Hoover's vigorous plea, for ly and demand, the condemnation | disarmament. ward 1 immediately labeled excessive| Nor 18 it difficult to anticpate what by congressional critics, and the prop- |the nature of “abroad’s” rejoinder will erty owners are regarded as Shylocks |be. As to Europe, the Old World wil be because the sales figure was higher than | depicted as an armed camp, necessarily the assessment figure, For a time the |Kept such by the jealousies, suspicions Jaw sought to confine actual value tp & {and hatreds which have accumulated fgure twenty-five per cent above the | since the so-called peace of Versailles. tax assessment, and the delays oc- |AS 1o Asia, the dominant Far Eastern | easioned in the purchase of really de- | Power, Japan, can present a loglcal case sirable property proved the law to be | for remalning strong on land and s ieiitaive tostinmant. . Nippon has only to point to the prox- The effort to apply the law requiring imity of Soviet Rygsia and to the end- | tax assessments to be at full value works |less chaos in China. | other obylous hardships on ‘property| Jurope, twelve and & half years after | owners. A building site, particularly | the armistice, has its being in an at- desired by a purchaser for a definite |mosphere of unconquerable fear and purpose, and held dearly by the owner, | terror. Britain resents any excessive brings an exceptional price. The as- increase of French naval power. France sessor learns of the sales price, pro- |and Italy are filied with mutual dis- vided the parties to the sale are honest | Wust. Rival military allisnces, “Little and sgree to make it known, and the Ententes” and the like, bristle in all di- high price is refiected by increased as. | Tections. Germany is meeting her rep- | sessments on the surrounding property. 'm"on obiigations sullenly -n‘d . n‘j! % Teal sstate shimp may Jower actua | Seaselessly demanding revision o values, but the assessment, generally | Versailies treaty. Kings of the Balkans speaking, continues to be based on the | —the cockpit of Europe—take to the | highest and the most recent sales. The Danube for clandestine affairs of state. assessment 1 probably the last figure to | , And overshadowing all Burope, like & | e affected by s falling real estate | [8Dulous cloud glowering ever bigger market. | and blacker, looms Russis with her Five This practics may work out equitably | Y908 Flan to drench the eesth with| 1n the Jong Tun a8 far as the clly aa | 10W-Priced wares and with her implaca whole is concerned. There must N‘hle plot to wage “world revolution.” v | When men speak of the armed camp something tangible upon whigh to base ! { " which is present-hour BEurope, they :;"' ‘::‘:m‘un n,::':‘;m:‘;:eo::m:::,: should not forget that the Soviet au- O e D e T o vy vh | tocTaCY, 00, 1 milliarist 1o the teeth. | i e R S S N il ) ot d ‘d"" 4 formidabl highest de- e T4 e il e ancoass: of ‘some | VoL or, O asble fa B TR ee, both as to numbers, equipment keen property owner in driving & good | e % g | bargain. | | and training | | When the other fellow thinks of all Every one will agree with Justice HIe's | \poen thing tribuie to Mr. Richards as an individual | The Evening § 11th St New Yo tar Newspaper Company iness Office Pennsylvania Ave. OMmee: 110 Enst 43 14 Regent Englund. Rate by Carrier Within the City. Evening 45¢ per month | Star e Evening and e 0c per month ' unday per month i The Sundas Star llection made at thi ders may be sent in Ational 5000. Rate by Mall—Payable in Advance, S c per copy ¢ eiid ‘of each moni by mail or telephone Lyl $5.00; 1 Assessments and Real Value. i ! —of what Grover Cleveland | calind “a conditioff, and not & theory,” | and as a conscientious public ofl:cm,i‘m‘n confronts hin—the man across | and the fact that principles only, and | (ne seas from rich, isolated, invulner- Dot individuals, are at lssue. sble America wonders whether we, be- SR 55 A A hind our ramparts of gold, take fully If Nevada continues to simplify and ;14 consideration what the rest of the | to speed up her divorce machinery, 1! yorid 15 up mgainst. It cannot be that | fs not improbable that she may SOME it iy Jess anxious than the people of the day reach the quarter-in-the-siot! United States for peace. It cannot be | bl | that Europe has so scon forgotten the | S | blood and tears in which she wallowed | \ More Interest in Music. | but yesterday. | oThe Bureau of Education contradicts' Perhaps the Old World's answer to| one of the popular theories concerning President Hoover's idealistic call to| the effect of radio, and, of course, StAck arms will be that civilized man-| other forms of “canned music” on the | Xind 13 spending $5,000,000,000 on, study of music in the schools. It has Rrmament for the same reason that the | been assumed that with so much good ;;:;:':‘!"l;':f‘ bl o S idab | mmusic on tap in the home at all hours % SEATE Ml P e 18 ths - fon 18 v learn the rudiments of home MANU. | oy o putln i dom. B facture of music would be lessened, and i within & generation or two the km’]“i' Sometimes a Portuguese government edge of music, expressed in the abllity nojas jts sittings in a capitol; some- | to flnyb..::;nfi:;l:ml;:l;;":m::: times in a barbwire-protected fortress, woul - and sometimes in jail, This is fort On the contrary, individual interest in | week in that small but peppy republic. musie is increasing, instead of dccnu-i - B ] ing. Statistics reveal a growing per- Chairman Fess. :::lt' ::»:“dm“ of music In the| .rpe jeagers of the Repuolican party c schools. re determi 2 This increased Interest in music, and :x:: to mr:: :;zlnl:r :::xyxn::rnln“z;dn:‘: 1:[. .uc::uo:?::uo:“i: :::kn:ht‘;:' |, tional chairmanship before the next na- music 3 " | tional convention, i The! & nection with the radio, but may be due | culty has been .: :::r:u“' :e:::, entirely to new methods of Instruction. | gireon . Fess of Ohio to continue on ;:: ‘:ur;lc\;‘ n.:;uf‘:‘u:::::n :::::‘sc ::“.;R n;::)nl‘le chairman. But apparently e AL nator has ylelded to the ar- | yle o preciation has been cwv’r:flr Ehl"lfd_,gumenu advanced. Senator Fess' prin- within the decade. both In DedAgORY | cipal reason for wishing to be relieved and in the study of the pupil's f« S %' of the chdirmanship lay in his feeling and judgment of m;)mnx::mor:-. lht}m.t if he remained as chalrman, what- policy has been to broaden tie con-!ever he might say on public issues or ception of music, to tell what it means matters affecting the G. O. P. would and “says” with later specialization tc |be widely circulated as the optnon of meet individual needs. the Republican National Committee or This s illustrated in s-me of the as the opinion of President Hoover, or modern methods of music instruction, | both. Buclf.a situation seemed, it ap- o s -t |to swell his head until he gets top- of the National Committee last August after Claudius H. Huston retired from that office. Mr. Huston's handling of the affairs of the Tennessee River Im- provement Assoclation, of which he was formerly president, had been under in- vestigation by the Senate Lobby Com- mittee. Senator Fess took on the na- tional chairmanship as a temporary duty until the President and other party | leaders could determine upon a more permanent chairman. It was at first belleved that such a selection could be made last Fall after the close of the congressional campaign. But for one reason or another, including the rage of the Republican wets because of an assertion by Mr. Fess that the G. O. P. undoubtedly would have to be dry in the 1932 national campaign, Mr. Fess held on. It was obvious that he would not resign while under fire from the wets. ‘There has been & growing opinion among Republican leaders, apparently shared by Presideny Hoover, who has the final word in such malters, that continual changes in the chairmanship of the national organization do not help the machinery to run. When President Hoover was inaugurated Dr. Hubert Work was national chairman. He gave way to Claudius Huston, who in turn moved out and Mr. Fess came in. Why another change, all in less than four years? Mr. Fess has sefved his party | with distinction in the past. He was chairman of the Republican Congres- slonal Committee when he was & mem- ber of the House. He delivered the key- note speech at the Republican national convention in 1928 as temporary chair- man of that convention. There seems to be every rerson why he should continue as chairman until the convention, when the candidates will be selected and the presidential nominee will as usual pick the man who is to manage his cam- paign. It is generally agreed that Presi- dent Hoover will probably be renom- inated, and that he will do the picking. ———— ‘The ways of the American lbori.inesl were not as peculiar as popular con- ception has made them.:- Not every girl of passable looks and talent in the old days was s “princess’—who ever heard of more than one Indian king?— and none ever wore a war bonnet. But today Red Cloud in all his glory is not arrayed like one of these. — ——e Local panhandlers, of whom there | are far, far 100 many, have a new stunt which is a slight improvement over the direct approach and accost. They engage assiduously in window- shopping and thus await the passer-by who possesses a fondness for that simple diversion and who innocently anchors alongside. —te—— ‘The skyscraper era is still in its in- fancy, according to s Gotham au- thority. If this be true, then some- thing shouid be done about its thyroid ’(llnd, e Although the death of George F. Baker leaves forty good jobs open, it is not thought that this wil greatly assuage the unemployment situation. ‘The claim is made in London that | Gandhl is but the pawn of a group of | rich mill-owners. Certainly not either cotton or woolen mills, - o SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Gardener. Oh, let us all rejoice once more! The vernal skies are bright. The gerden seeds down at the store Once more our hopes invite. ‘We'll watch the tender leaves and buds And pray for sun or shower, And raise 'most everything from spuds To kale and caulifiower. ©Oh, let us greet the crowd once more That gayly gathers ’round. The cutworm as in days of yore 1s working through the ground. The grub that makes the butterfly Displays perniclous zeal, And everything that wanders by Is looking for & meal. Destroying Equilibrium. “That former enemy of yours is pay- ing you a great many compliments.” “Yes,” replied Senator Sorghum; ‘and 1 wish he'd quit it. One of the easiest ways to’ throw & man down is heavy.” A Husky Favorite. “How s your boy doing at college?” “Well,” replied Farmer Coriltossel, “I don't s'pose he's much fur Greek an’ | Latin, but they do tell me he's mighty | highly considered by the boys when they have a little job o' hazin’ on hand.” To Be Expected. The man whom fame has brought into the glare ‘Without resentment must accept his lot. The tpol]yht shows him as a mark so fair That everybody wants to take a shot. Elusive Sport. “Does your husband go fishing?"” “Yel replied young Mrs. Torkins. aven't fish peculiar names? The ast fishing trip Charley sat for three hours trying to catch a flush.” Soclal Simile. “That young man is alw about his family tree.” “Yes,” replied Miss Cayenne. “A family tree is like the ordinary tree. The twig that is farthest from the main root does the most fluttering.” ys talking Unprofitable. If troubles to your friends you tell, You'll find they don’t amuse 'em; Your troubles still with you will dwell, And as for friends—you'll lose ‘em. “Once in & while,” sald Uncle Eben, “yowll hear a man sayin' he regrets his past, when de fact is dat he's afraid of his future.” - And Who Pays? A gentleman came into our office the! A little girl, 8 years old, who had other day with the following question: | recently moved into a house down'the “What is the Indian word for the|block, came determinedly to the gate of to the handling of inquiries. You have at your disposal an extensive organiza- tion in Washington to serve you in any NEW RUSSIA'S PRIMER: The Story of the PFive-Year Plan. By M. Ilin. name of the lake in Massachusetts which means, ‘You fish on your side of the lake, I fish on my side of the lake, nobody fish in the middl It was such an intriguing question, we were sorry we could not answer it. Certainly the Indian name must be a grand one, we thought and said. If he discovered the proper word, would he come back and tell us? He would. He did. Later in the day he returned, and hurled triumphantly in our astounded direction the following combination of syllables: Chargoggagogg manchauggagogg chaubunagungamaug. Well, well, well! ‘The nai he said, really ought to go as one word, & great jawbreaker resem- bling the name of some German chem- *x xx {ical society, thus: Chargoggagoggmanchauggegogechau- bunagungamaug. He found it easier to break it up into three phrases, with the accent on the second syllable of the first two phrases; and on the fourth in the third. R After the door had closed behind him, timidly we tried our own tongue on the delicious new word. Shortly it came trippingly. ‘Whether an Indian would have recog- nized what we were talking about we did not know, but to our unpracticed ear we sounded terribly Indlanesque. Here we had heen wanting to talk some sort of Indian lingo ever since we were a child, and here at last we | were doing it! Sitting there in a modern office, the roar of traffic outside, the great dome of the Capltol of the Great White Father saning to the east, we con- jured up vicions of & lovely stretch of lake, wooded shores, Indians prowling, talking_gutturally to each other. Ah. human nature! Eviently the aborigines had as much difficulty getting along with their neighbors as moderns in row com- munities, %k % as in a mirage the blue sky, stood the ‘There, the green siiver lake, shore. And on that shore were two Indians, their swarthy faces intent, their blacl hair giistening. “The time had come for & pronounce: ment. Too long had there been trouble on_this lake, ‘This was a historic meeting of chiefs, and each, as sensing the dignity of the occasion, drew his right arm up around his chest. in & gesture of finality. The eider of the two chiefs spake, and sald: “You fish on your side of the lake, I fish on my side of the lake, nobody fish in the middle.” “Twas done. With & grunt of assent the lesser chief took to his canoe and paddled swiftly away. Chargoggagogg manchauggagogg chau- bunagungamaug'! * ook % The lake vanished, and before our eyes there came into being another pic- ture, more vivid, this time, because we had 'seen it in actuality. Two rows of small back yards stretched along & concrete alley. Each yard was surrounded by a low wire fence. In them grew flowers, and dogs and cats played. The children played in the streets. AILY MAIL, London.—Few girls get a straight deal from a woman, especially if that woman is a mother. “Mary is my right hand,” says the And that means that Mary is D mother. demands of the maternal instinct. theory, let me quote the case of Joyce, an aitractive, if sullen, brunette, aged 17, who was charged by her parents at Clerkenwell Police Court recently with stealing 2s from the family mantel- piece. On the shelt was 4s 6d and Joyce took 2s. Mr. Pope, the magistrate, although & bachelor, is & wise man of the world. Said he to Joyce: “Why don't you make & chum of your father? I know lots of girls of your age and all of them look on their father as their best pal. I know a girl just your age who accom- panles her father to the station every morning and meets him at the station every night.” “I would like to do that,” whimpered Joyce. ' “Your parents have charged you with the charge means. A conviction means social ostracism “I am sorry,” pleaded Joyce. “No, you are not,” sald Mr. Pope. man on my side’ The old man meant me, and I think you were premature. I am not on your side. be on my side. You are at the age that | emerges from the child to the woman. You have had six situations and lost four of them because of insubordina- You resent authority and you give back answers, don't you? “Yes. perhaps I do,” admitted Joyce. “Well, ncw we understand other,” sald Mr. Pope. “I don't think you are a thief. The charge against you ought not to have been made.” “I think she has had her lesson” said & man from the back of the court. “1 am her father,” he explained. “You are the man I want,” said Mr. Pope. “Why don't you treat your daughter like & chum?” Why bring her to the Police Court and make me a sort | of father confessor? ‘Try to understand her; make allowances. Give her affec- Ition and she will respond. Daughters | "I wish to withdraw the charge,” said he father. “That is what T have been trying to make you do,” replied Mr. Pone. Clever men, these metropolitan may istrates! *x w0k rgentina Needs More Accurate Weather Forecasts. La Naclon, Buenos Alres.—The de- fects of our meteorological service are well known, but just how to correct them is not apparent. Changes in the administration of the department have helped somewhat, since September 6, | weather sclence have replaced some not ecqually qualified. The fact remains. owever, that, despite improvement in he requisite capacity of the personnel (and the installation of the latest appa- ratus in place of antiquated forecasting | equipment, the necessary and pxpected benefits have not followed. In'a coun- try like ours, where the principal eco- nomic feopardies pertain to the crops, it is fundamentally essential that the probabilities announced for atmospheric phenomena be fairly reliable, and not generally in error, as they, unfortu- nately, are found to be. It merely adds to the woes of the agriculturist to behold a “fair” ensign !flying from the staff of a meteorolog- ical station in some rural area while at the same moment he is saturated with a veritable deluge of Jupiter Pluvius. | S0 obsessed do some of these prophets appear to be with notions of their in- fallible divination that they do not ad- mit, or even recognize, their mis and cheerfully continue to display fair-weather flag on successive days downpour. ‘To be of service to our people, the a of where & lot of the old theories relating | pears, almost unbearable to one who is %o the history of music, the mechanics used to speaking his mind freely as of music and the eesential mastsry of a Senator of United States. He has ru technique have been cast decided, it appears, to spesk ool Prom the Little Rock Arkansas Democrat “Evening gowns may be simple or sumptuous this season.” Ygp, and a lot depends o8 Who's wearigg tiem. predictions must be accurate, for the better protection of agricultural inter- ests. When storms are coming, we should be apprised sufficiently in ad- vance, so that grain and other produce the bond slave, obeying the tyrannical | Just to {llustrate—if not to prove—my stealing money without realizing what | Last week you said, ‘I've got the old | I want you to | tlon, which, I take it, means: cheek. each | 11930, when men actually trained in the | one of the yards, and entered. To & woman standing there she made the following speech! “We will keep our dog in our yard, and you keep your cat in your yard, and | I am sure we shall get along very well.” And so saying, she turned and walked way. | *"We do not know what that would be | in Indian, but would hazard the follow- ing, at random, if not Choctaw: Chardoggadogg Mancattacatt Dogeat- adoggacatt! - % % % Here we were at last, talking Indian at a rapid rate. Here&l(n, if ‘we are confronted with & question which we do not know how 1o answer, or do not care to answer, we will Jook as solemnly at our interrogator as our nature will permit and say placidly: . “Chargoggagogg manchauggagoss chaubunagungamaug No doubt this will amaze him so com- pletely, especially if he has the legal mind, which strives so desperately to be logical, that he will be nonplussed and forget all about his cross-examining. “What's that?"” the fellow will ask. Happily we will reply: | “Oh, chargoggagogs manchauggagoge chaubunagungamaug, that's all.’ ‘The fellow, having suspiclons that we are hurling epithets in his direction, will | demand an !Xplll*".lon. and we shall be | glad to give it to him. LI Readers will remember Mark Twain's | conductor, who sald incessantly: “Punch, brothers, punch, punch with car Punch in the presence of the passen- | jairet | 1t was a buff trip slip for a 2-cent | tare, 50 on. The nonsensical verses harrowed the hearer, who went around repeating them night and day, until he | could, in his turn, load them onto some other fellow sufferer. Now, our newly discovered Indian talk comes' in the same category. Once & reader has got onto the rhythm of it. he will discover, in all probability, that | he is unable to let go of it. | It is said that there once was an old politiclan at the Capitol many years ago who was forever repeating in and out of season the single, resounding word, | “Rome.” He believed that it gave his voice a round. full tone. | Chargoggagogg, etc., may or may not improve the voice, but one thing is cer- | tain—if you have a certain juvenility | of temperament, which benefits all men, syllables and rather priding yourseif on | the belief, if not the fact, that you | sound_very much like an Indian, sure | enough. | Perhaps Tarzan, rather than Uncas, | holds the stage today. But for sheer picturesque romance no man or men will ever take the place of the Indians. Thelr names, especlally their place | names, will never vanish from the earth. Let no man be fooled by the fact that a professor of the ancient languages in the early days went through New York State and helped call them Seneca In- dians, etc. Such names are not Indian | names. Nor let any one be bamboozled | if he sees on the map the name “Lake Chaubunagungamaug,” near Webster, | Mass. It is not enough. | "The full, proper Indian name for that | ake is nothing more nor less than: | Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchau- | bunagungamaug. Highlights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands {ready for the harvest may not be exs posed to their ravages destruction. We need in Argentina, not a medi- ocre but the best system of meteoro- | the world. | logical prognostication in Some betterment has been accom- plished, but much more is required. * X x X Some Women Always Arrive Late to Do Shopping. The Evening Times, Glasgow.—"It Goes not matter at what hour a shop shuts, there is always a type of woman | customer who never appears until a few | minutes before closing time.” ‘That statement was made by a trader | at & recent session of the Select Com- | mittee of the House of Commons which | is considering the question of shop as- sistants’ hours and conditions. | Persons epgaged in the ordinary butcher's shop, stated another witness, were not continuously employed in the same way as an operative in a factory or workshop. “At the present time the shopping | public do the bulk of their purchasing eithér in the morning or the early evening. “To work a 48-hour week in the o tail meat trade would, therefore, mean an attempt either to adopt a shift sys- tem or to have later opening or clos- ing of shops. “In the old days. when butchers’ women customers would not arrive un- til five minutes before the hour.” * X kX Reports Serum to Avert Infantile Paralysis. Irish Independent, Dublin—What is claimed to be an “epoch-making medi- cal discovery” was announced by Dr. J. Collier at a meeting of the Ladies’ As- sociation _in St. George's Hospital, London. Dr. Collier told a London rep- resentative of the Irish Independent that Dr. Weston Hurst of the Lister In- stitute of Preventive Medicine, London, had injected the virus of infantile pa- ralysis into a horse and then found that by inoculating human beings with the blood taken from the horse infantile paralysis could be averted. iGirlori 14D erends: Byrd’s Sportsmanship To the Fditor of The Sta: Although I am only a little girl of 14, I am an American who likes fair play and I would ltke to call attention, through the ocolumns of your paper, which is always on the side of the right, to some facts in connection with Ad- miral Byrd's transatlantic flight which seem to have been overlooked in the controversy which has arisen over the | statements made by Mr. Fokker in hi recent book, “The Flylng Dutchman At least, I have seen no mention made of them in the newspapers, They are follows: Che first delay in connection with the preparations for Admiral Byrd's flight |came In May. when, on the first test flight, the plane crashed while the de- | signer, Mr. Fokker, was at the controls. | necessitating a delay of over a month, while Tepairs Were made. The reason for so_many test fights—which so strangely puzzled Mr. Fokker—after the plane had been repaired, was that there were no data about tri-motored planes, such as their crulsing radius, lfting power, landing speed, etc., while there was_available plenty of such data in connection with monoplanes. Admiral Byrd never needlessly endangers lives. In the meantime, other fiyers had made preparations for a similar flight, | Including young Charles Lindbergh, to whom Admiral Byrd, with his custom- ary generosity, loaned his field for the take-off. When asked if he would make his flight on the same day as Col. Lind- bergh, Admiral Byrd replied, “No, the eves of the world should be focused on Lindbergh—he must have his chance.” An ardent admirer of Admiral Byrd, I feel that T must come to the defense of the most perfect gentleman and lant sportsman I have ever known and 1 should be so grateful if you could find room to print this letter . k BETSY WINTER, | you will find yourself rolling out its! shops did not close until midnight, some | Translated from the Russian by George 8. Counts and Nucia P. lodge. Boston: Houghton Miffin Co. . The world is now sitting in, so to speak, before the greatest political ex- periment that has. so far, massed itself to any considerable bulk against the commonly accepted theories and pracs tices of government among advance: peoples. ‘This is the complete socialization ot Russia This is the creation of & Com- munistic state for 150,000,000 Russians, born into & despotism and, until yes- terday, living under that form of gov- ernment. Now Communism has been sought and preached from very ancient times. As 1 recall, the Bible itself advocates such mode of life. From time to time, also, it has been practiced in narrow areas by small groups, inadequately pre- pared to carry forward toward material and practical issues. Enthusiasm and faith, the chief equipment of these scattered and unorganized idealists. Here is & different thing. Since the Revolution of 1917, capped by the brut- ish murder of the Czar and his family, Russia has been in soclal and political turmoll. One leader, or another, has come to the front, has spoken his piece with more or less of oratorical fervor and gesture. He has then moved off the stage, usyally not by his own free will, to make way for another prophet of Communistic vision and promise. Yet, much beyond mere political elo- quence has marked the dozen years or so since this great country began to de- clare its purpose of a new social and political order. Within the period an immense | mute theory into practice, to convert |a program into action, to herd an | enormous confusion of scattered, unre- lated parts into unity of response, into harmony of action. A seemingly superb | example of organization appears here. A single motivating energy seems to have taken possession of 150,000,000 Russians under the promise of the Com- munistic state. Everywhere outside this huge area in its new activity rumor is, naturally, on tiptoe. Ideas are catching like measies and mumps or, looking the other way, like good deeds whose object is the well-being of bodies politic by way of expanding the liberty and its sequent obligations of the individuals composing these. Just now the air is thick with stories of what Russia is doing, is not doing. People on the outside are anx- fous over Russia. A general menace, many declare. The human is by in- stinct conservative on the side of his own safety. He dreads the new, the untried. Here he is clearly afraid of “the bear that walks like a man.” A state of mind not mollified by such seraps of knowledge as rumor offers. | Definite and specific information is the present need. And here it is. Here is “The Story of the Five-Year Plan” about which so much is being said and imagined. A little book. Truly “primer” in scope, simplicity, clarity and practical statement. Its purpose, to give even the average reader a picture of Russia under the “plan” of completely indus- trializing Russia in the short term of five years. It has takeni the United States several hundred years to ap- proach even to that goal. However, that is not important, not in this con- nection. It is the ‘“primer” and the “plan” that count. In the second chapter of this quite phenomenal example of planning M. Ilin refers to the United States as the warn- ing which his own country has heeded. in that they did make minute plans for the five-year scheme where this coun- try has been planless, sort of blundering along from one grand achievement to another one. It was by the grace of the good God, and the climate, and the daring men and women venturing this way who insured the greatness of America. Well— ‘The other chapters of this amazing book attend to their own business in competent and convincing fashion. Prom over a thousand pages of sheer figures and charts and working graphs M. Ilin has drawn off the straight shop. Here is a picture: “A river appears where none existed before, a river 100 kilometers long.” “A swamp is su denly transferred into a broad lake. “On the steppe, where only feather grass grew, thousands of acres of wheat wave in the breeze.” “In the Kalmik region, naked steppe. grow bulldings of steel and concrete.” “Scouts of the Five-Year Plan” is a great adventure in {tself. Groups searching Russia, from Moscow to Man- churia, for natural resources. In Si- beria lakes rich in soda. In the desert of Kara-Kum sands impregnate with sulphur. In Yakut hills of gypsum. | Coal in unsuspected mines. Forests of tremendous promise and so on in a tri- umph of discovering the natural re- sources of Russia. Then what? Why, then, to summon workmen for the res- urrection of these ancient life forms for their impressment into the service of current life. Machinery, to be sure. | The day of pick and shovel and hoe is gone by. 8o the project of mechan- | ical workmen is met by this plan whose inspiration is—upon looking into it—but the inspiration of common sense applied | to the pursuit of whatever desired end | the progress of the “plan” demanded. | And, following the scouts who go ahead |to “spy out the land,” are factories, fron workmen, trailing them to convert on the spot into products of immediate use the natural offerings of the earth itself, Not & page here that is not a revela- tion. Its objective may be political so- clalism, but that just now is not the point. Probably not the point at all in respect to Western peoples. The rev- elation lies in the perfect adjustment of industrial means to the industrial ends sought. Incalculably worth while, every page of it, for that alcne. It reads like some magician's story. Yet it is the plainest of practical directions toward the ends desired. And then at the last, after no more than 150 pages of such “primer” in- struction, the author indulges himself in making the picture of a “new peo- ple.” “All this will be written about us a few decades hence. Of the ma- chine age about which we hear so much,” M. Ilin says, “we need ma- chines in order that we may work less and accomplish more. By the end of the five-year plan the working day in a factory will be greatly reduced (fig- ures are given) and th~ wages will be raised by 50 per cent. Instead of dark, gloomy shops there will be light, clean halls with great windows. Not the Jungs of men, but powerful ventilators, will suck in and swallow the dirt, dust and shavings of the factory. Workers will be less fatigued after a day’s labor. punishment. They will labor easily.” From this point—even before this point—many of these benefits are de- rived from the erection of a socialistic state. Now we in America will have nothing of that sort of political insti- tution. However, quite apart from its implications of propaganda, here is & book that cannot fall to be of value to every industrialist in his own individual career. And in conclusion—"Here it is—your Five-Year Plan: Drawing from & dozen items of this here are a few. Scout work—to discover beds of lime and phosphorus. To gather useful junk—handy and useful in the facto- rles. To build radios—not a school should be without a loud speake | gather ashes for fertilizing fields. To build one starling and two feeding houses & year: birds are our allles. To organize bird brotherhoods of children, To plant ten trees each in fiva vears. to create Ploneer forests of 75 000,000 trees. To teach the illiterat» to 1ead and write. Each scout troop should seek to wipe out illiteracy in Its reglon.” Wholly inadequate, this netice. The best that can be i ta urge » amount of progressive work has been | done by leaders, clcarly able to trans- | course of turning Russia into a work- | Men will cease to regard work as a| DA | capacity that relates to information. | Write your question, your name and | your address clearly and inclose 2 cents in coin or stamps for reply. Send to| The Evening Star Information Bu- | reau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washington, D. C. Q. Is it customary for a man who is to be married to provide himself with lll‘ uémpleu new wardrobe of clothes?— IN. E. D. A. 1t is not customary. A bridegroom should see that his clothes are all in good order and replenish his wardrobe if necessary so that he will have sum- clent for all probable occasions. Q. How does a woman become fessional golfer?—S8. Y. A. The United States Golf Associa- tion says there are very few woman professional golfers. A woman becomes a professional golfer upon receiving cash for playing or teaching the game of golf or upon playing for a money prize. Q. Did Peary have any white men with him when he reached the North Pole?—J. F. A. His party for the final dash in- cluded no white men. He took Matthew Henson, his colored servant, and four Eskimos. Q. Can s qnon sue the United States>—B. B. T. A. The United States cannot be sued without its own consent. In order to bring suit against the United States a petition must be forwarded to the| Court of Claims, Washington, D. C. Q. Who was called the “pipe man of | the United States”?—N. T. | A. Edward Hen, who before 1860 was almost the only importer of note of the more expensive pipss, was thus known. William Demuth began the making of pipes in this country in 1861. Q. In other countries are the people | in the Capital city disfranchised?—P. A. A. The United States is the only | country in the world where residents | of the Capital City are completely dis- franchised. Q. What is Queen Marie of Rumania called now that she is no longer tion says that Marie is pro- | the correct title of Queen Mother. Q. What State has done the most te | reduce {lliteracy within its borders in the last 10 years>—A. C. A. Georgia stands first among the 20 States for which census returns are now in. In 1920 there were 3283838 over 10 years of age who could not read or write. In 1930 only 210,736 were found to be illiterate. Q. What is the name of the character | &2—s. D. A. It is known as ampersand. Q. Should the Olympic games be called Olympiads?—L. 8. A. There is & tendency on the part of some modern writers to employ the term in this way. It is an erroneous | use of the word, since it refers to & certain space of time at the end of which the Olympic games were held in celebration. Q. Why did France sell Louisiana to the United States?—D. E. C. A. Napoleon offered to sell Louisiana to the United States primarily for two reasons. He feared that England might to carry out his project in the lower Mississippl Valley. Besides, he needec money. The offer of sale was made to Livingston. The price asked was $20,- 000.000. Livingston and Monroe had been authorized to offer as much as | $10,000,000 for West Florida and New | Orleans. At length the bargain was made by which the United States was to pay $15,000,000 for the entire terri- tory. One-fourth of this was to be paid to Americans holding claims against France, while the remaining | three-fourths was to be paid in 6 per cent bonds. The famous treaty signed April 30, 1803. Q. What is meant by a shop right in an invention?—H. A. K. A. A shop right is the rizht to use an invention which is au.wmatically created on behalf of the owner of the shop, when the invention is developed in such shop by an employe who uses the time and equipment of the shop for producing the invention. Such shop rights are non-assignable and apply alone io inventions pertaining to the employer’s business. Q. Why is South Carolina called the Iodine State?—R. E. L. A. An article was published & few years ago in the Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry about the lodine content of the soll in South Carolina, in which it was stated that the soil was rich in jodine and that vegetables grown in the soil were also rich in lodine. Since this time South Carolina has featured this asset. was Q. How can animals live at great depths in the sea> What happens if they are brought to the surface?— E H.8. A. Deep-water animals are so con- structed that the water is able to pene- trate their bodies. Crabs which live on the sea bottom are full of water. s that the pressure inside is the same as that outside. Thus when such sea-bot- tom creatures are brought to the sur- face they explode. Q. Where and when did Wild Bill Hickok die?—R. J. gnl 8. A. He was shot during & card in Deadwood, S. ., August 2, 1 QG- Who first made ginger ale?—J. "A. Cantrell & Cochrane first manu- factured it. It was ted by chemists to use as a substitute for m‘lerbeerlwmnflhmwm . Q. How much did Lord Byron weigh before he dieted for reduction of weight’—F. K. A. At one time Byron is said to have weighed 200 pounds and by reducing have attained the weight of 110 pounds. Q. What is fuller's earth?—P. M. S. A. It is clay whose coi ition is not thoroughly determined, but which seems to consist principally of amor- | phous hydrous aluminum silicates. | Q. Why do Fascists choose a shirt as gu distinctive part. of their dress?— A. At the time that Italy was freed from Austrian domination and afili- ated into United Italy, Garibaldl with his following of patriot soldiers were noticeable features. They adopted as a uniform the red shirt, and somewhat after the same manner Mussolini, ‘ in case of war land an army on the coast of Louisiana and hold the terri- fighting to overthrow Socialism by | Pascism. inaugurated the costume of ! the black-shirted troops, or Fascisti. Charles M. Schwab's advice to the housewives of the United States is sub- | jected to criticism. He sald: “Spend all you can! Never mind what your i husband says. That is the way to spread prospsrity.” The theory is held generally to be good for business, possi- bly, but not for the tranquillity of the home. Some words of commendation are given. “Mebbe, mebbe,” remarks the Detroit Free Press, “but that is no way to spread domestic peace and felicity or keep down the divorce rat> and the populations of the sanitariums and booby hatches, If the women take Mr. Schwab seriously a whole lot of males now patiently living lives of quiet desperation are going to be transformed into howling maniacs with square- cornered mouths and slant eyes. And those that stay sane are going to pray every night that Mr. Schwab will run for some office or other so they can vote against him.” “To spend like that might help to restore prosperity out yonder,” thinks the Memphis Commercial Appeal, “but it would rob good, old, hard-plugging papa of the sense of security which he i enjoys even more than luxury.” Thal paper also offers the analysis of the suggested policy: “Housewives who are thoughtful of the happiness and peace of mind of their weage-earning hus- bandr have replied with something like unanimous agreement that Mr. Schwab does not know what it's all about. The majority of wives must scheme and scrimp to make the budget cover the family’s requirements. A bit must be set aside for clothes, & bit more for emergencies and so on. Mr. Schwab, in order to stimulate general business, would surely not opose that the keeper of accounts draw out the sav- ings which are being accumulated little by little for possible doctors’ bills and a college education for junior and spend them.” kX x “Many husbands,” declares the Al- bany Evening News, “believe that Mr. Schwab's advice to the wives of the 1and is something like carrying coals to | Newcastle. Theoretically and perhaps | practically, too, Mr. Schwab is rlnhl,; but husbands may well ask in the slang 'Advice Given to Housewives Stirs Criticism of Schwab & spasm of that. We want the kind of ity in which money is useful it is used in which money brings a reasonable return in convenience or comfort, in which things are ired which have & broader use than mere luxury of uselessness. As .k-':;“m of fact, Mr. Schwab's re- mark deserves. 3 place those foolish sayings which men“;z?&nc po- sitions of leadership have been making ,lflkl.v‘ It goes into the records along with Henry Ford's remark that the average American workman vill run | away from a job of work.” * % % % “He can spot a silver lining when there isn't even a cloud,” avers the Chaétancoga News. “Is prosperity ev- e 2" asks that paper, adding: “Is not domestic tranquillity more de- sirable? There are many husbands who cherish the knowledge that in this time of adversity their wives have helped them shoulder the burden. Hardships are only relative. Wearing calico instead of silk, eating bread In- stead of cake, doing without material things — that really isn't suffering. Knowing that one in whom we trust and whose help we need is thinking more of prosperity than of our own welfare and mental comfort would be & worse blow than all the hardships brought on by the business depression. This depression will not be in vain if it will teach us to avold doing just what Mr. Schwab advises us to do.” ‘The San Prancisco Chronicle is “de- lighted to be backed in its plea for spending by so eminent an American 23 Mr. Schwab.” That paper continues in ‘support of the position taken by the steel officlal: “The great indus- trialist has always been fundamentally sound, and his present advice is good. True, there are plenty of people whose incomes have been so reduced that they have to be careful. With these we have no quarrel. But there are plenty of others who are making just as much money now as they ever did—and the same amount of money is actually worth & lot more in its buying power— yet these fortunate people are hoarding. ‘The thought is not to advocate extrava- gance or foolish spending. What is wanted is normal spending by those in a position to spend normally. The country needs to have those with un- impaired incomes buying exactly as of the day: Why bring that up? Buy- ing does make for prosperity where | hoarding does not. but the average hus- band probably believes that wites will spend il they can anyway. Howerer, | serfously, is it not true in many fam- jlies that the wives are the real con- | servers of the family income? Many wives manage financial affairs of the family better than their husbands.| They save where their husbands may | be careless with money. It is all very well to make jokes about wives epend- | ing money, but it is only fair to give thousands of wives credit for conserving money, Many a husband owes to his wife the ability to put money in the nk.” “It is the better part of wisdom.” advises the Rockford Morning Star, “to consult your husband as to how grea a balance he has in the bank depo: beforehand, to obviate the necessity of his going to jall. Going to jail has never spread prosperity. There is no wisdom in hoa mongy, for money is meaningless it becomes the implement of happiness, or comfort, or convenience, or benevolence. But the squandering of money, which Mr. Schwab lavishly su, ts, is no better business than hoarding it. We do not want the kind of prosperity which Mr. Schwab suggests, in which money lcses all value in a frantic attempt to put it | out faster than it comes in. We had | reading of this book from the stand- | point of its clearly expert treatment of jplnn applied to undertaking. You will reject the politics and ‘he propaganda. But you will accept the program and, besides, you will have direct and Au- | thentic information concsrnint the Russian today in his strugels against a long and deCue system o govern- 2 ment. they have in the past the clothes, shoes, hats, shirts and the thousand and one other things that go to clothe and feed nd shelter them. Picture the dollar hat you spend in a store and what happens to it. It does not just drop into the owner's pocket and stay there. Not at alll Portions of it are dis- tributed in_ every direction. Some pay the labor that produced the raw goods, some the wages of the men and women who manufactured the articles, some the distribution cost—indeed, the ulti- mate division of that dollar of yours would be hard to follow. So the dollar and start it on its way!” ——— Slogan for Autoists Is “Watch Your Tires!” Prom the Shreveport Journal. The Supreme Court of the State of ‘Washington has held that motorists are Just as much responsible for condition of the tires on their automontles as ror the brakes, and has given judgment for damages in a case Where an accident resulted from the blowing out of & wern casing. As a matter of fact, a great many smash-ups result from this par- ticular cause; hereafter, the automobil- ist who starts on a journey with tires - that are worn down to the fabrie needn't expect Providence to look after him—not in the State of Washington. To the old slogan of “Watch Your Step!™ now may be added this one: “Watch Your Tires! ———— A National Fence Buster. From the Memphis Commercial Appea! What the country seems to need in ecach town is a home-run hitter who can perform at a crucial moment vhen the bases are d. ’