Evening Star Newspaper, May 19, 1931, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, THE EVENING STAR |much sorrow be felt with the remoulimod-m cruisers instead of the six| ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY. -May 19, 1831 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor| The Evening “.fi Newspaper Company 42nd 8t. mflslm. A8, Tandon, [ Rate by Carrier Within the City. | ning Star............. 45¢ per month 3}% :{“lfiflaymh St 80e per month y at nth. one i Rational Soce; ™ Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginja. ly and Sunday. day ons © € ‘end o ‘ench 1n"by mall or te | 1T, 312 SRS R Member of the Associated Press. ted Press is exclusively entitled use for republication of all news Allx- el L o Sl S zfl!. All rights of publication of ies herein are also reserved. Raussia’s Latest Bluff. Before the League of Nations Council &t Geneva yesterday M. Litvinoff, Rus- sia’s commissar for foreign affzirs, put' forward the Soviet's latest trade bluff. He submitted a plan for “economic non- | aggression,” whereby contractirg powers | would jointly and severally zgree to “eo-exist” alongside one another with- out attempting in any way whatsoever to interfere with normal end natural eommercial intercourse. The Commu- nist proposal would specifically debar “discrimination” against the trade of any country. This, of course, is the Soviet's way of obliterating th: em- bargoes which so many countrie; are now invoking against ccnmerce with Russia, Our next-door r.:ighbor, Can- ada, has recently resorted to such measures. The Litvinoff proposition on its face | or the statues now in place, the Com- ¢, missicners should give their approval i2nd of lzbor meeting at President Hoo- of the island at the Taft Bridge. A broad white line to divide traffic where the island now stands will permit a greater street width and a frictionless flow. ‘Thomas and Logan Circles have long been danger spots dug to congestion. Not only should the street car company benefit by tracks through the middle and around the statue of Thomas Cir- cle, but motorists will no longer ap- preach this point with fear and trepi- dation. Thirteenth street, where it rounds Logan Circle, carries an enor- mous body of traffic, especially in the morning and evening rush hours. The solution of the problem there is so sim- ple that probably many people wonder why it was not thought of before. Inasmuch as neither of the two plans at the circles will disturb their beauty to immediate commencement of these sound plans for improvement. e ‘Wage Cuts Opposed. ‘The administration, this time through the Becretary of Labor, Mr, Doak, has again gone on record in opposition to wage cuts in this period of business de- pression. Mr. Doak has very properly pointed out that any general move by industry to cut wages would be in vio- laticn of the egreement entered into by Tepresentatives of the great industries ver's call at the White House in 1929, soon after the business slump had set in. Labor, through its leaders, at that| time agreed to carry on without de- mands for increases, without strikes and thrcugh mediation to adjust differences which arose with employers, Through- out this period of depression the coun- try has been singularly free from labor disturbances, even though there has been a great amount of unemployment. This fact may be attributed largely to the maintenance of the wage scale gen- erally, despite the fact that it has been necessary to lay off men in order to cut production with the markets slack. An attempt now generally to bring about slashes in wages mighf find a vastly different situation in this coun- try. Mr. Doak seid that so far es he knew suggestions for wage cuts had not " | come from leaders in industry but from many serfs chained to a juggernaut. But that, after all, is their husiness. ‘What is the business of the rest of us, in connection with this latest flower of Communist impudence, is to contem- plate how much value could be attached E | T ze } bankers. The banker who has loaned money against stocks and bonds of in- dustrial corporations not unnaturally is interested in having these ccrporations pay dividends. If there is no manner in which th: dividends can be paid except through the reduction of wages, then, in the opinion of the banker, ‘wages should be reduced. In boom times, however, when divi- have piled higher and higher, ‘has been no particular demand the bankers that wages of labor increased. The bankers and their ts took their profits and growled it labor demanded more return for its The worker, Mr. Doak has ted out, is entitled to more than formally allotted her. This miracle cf the shipwright's craft has been accomplished by unique exploitation of welding and riveting processes. Absence of rivets in the body of the vessel saves the dead weight for the benefit of heavier armament. Ersatz Preussen is able, within her ten thou- sand tons, to mount guns hitherto re- served for warships cf twice her dis- placement. She will carry the biggest Diesel engine plant ever built into a ship. It will develop fifty thousand horsepower, generate a speed of twenty- six knots and permit a cruising radius of ten thousand miles. The Reichstag recently voted funds for the construction of a second Ersatz Preussen, though not without consider- able opposition. Today's spectacular launching cere- mony at Kiel is no doubt designed by the Berlin government to persuade the German people that Europe's present troubled hour is not the time for the Reich to abdicate her naval rights. 1t will be half a dozen years before its fleet of six Ersatz Preussens can be commissioned. With the Atlantic’s laurels held by Bremen and Europa and Germany’s mercantile interests spreading over the seven seas again, her need for a navy will beccme in- creasingly apparent. —————— ‘The New York “personality” is bloated and inconsiderate; that of Chicago is somewhat loud, though inclined to be helpful; that of Boston is quiet and dignified. ‘The first person correctly guessing the home city of the dispenser of the above city type analysis will be rewarded with one box seat for the 1930 world serles. S S The next tidal wave may be explained by the fact that all the old salts repos- ing in Davy Jones' locker are writhing in agonized shame over the American bluejacket who, in a recent written ex- amination, declared that a sextant offi- ciates at sea funerals, a capstan is the commander of a vessel, and a scupper is a drinking cup. ———— A Seattle, Wash., judge sentenced a man to thirty days and fifty dollars for “trying to be a smart aleck.” Of all the trouble in this world not caused by actual crime, about half is caused by sticking the bill- into other people’s business and half by smart aleckism. —————e—— Ttaly is certainly getting to be & rough country. First they beat up Arturo Tos- canini for refusing to play what the crowd wants; then Gabriele D’Annunzio throws some “Irish confett!” at a cam- eraman. Spaghetti, however, remains smooth and pliant. 1t is estimated that if a fleet of real enemy planes of the number scheduled to demonstrate here soon attacked the Capital at least four times that many, or 2400, would be needed properly to repel them. Oh, let us call the war off! ——————— The worm may be beginning to turn out in Chicago. Outraged customers are complaining that Al Capone et al. are giving them barrels of beer which are short by several gallons. e ‘The air of Paris is conducive to long life for Americans, according to a sur- . |vey, which shows many such residing off the purchasing power of this market a huge and ancient tree beneath which no treaty with any Indians whatsoever Was ever made. Anybody who thinks that Briand is out of the political picture in France ‘because of his defeat for the presidency stmply does not know his Aristide. —————————— Circles, Islands and Traffic. ‘Hearty public support will doubtless street car tracks through Thomas Circle, for cutting Thirteenth street through Logan Circle, for elimination of the island which divides traffic at the intersection of Massachusetts svenue and R street, for removing the island at the south end of the Taft Bridge and for widening the approach | to the bridge at the north end and for | improving the intersection of Eigh- teenth street and Columbia road. Al of these proposals are based on study | of the points in question and are the| Jogical solution of a traffic problem that has been crying for attention for many years. Particularly s the proposition attrac- | tive from a financial standpoint. Forty | thousand dollars is estimated for the work st Thomas Circle and fifteen | thousand dollars for Logan Circle, a total of only fifty-five thousand dollars | for clearing up two of the most con- gested traffic points in the city. Be- sides that, Capt. Whitehurst states that once the Commissioners give their approval work can begin at once. With more cars appearing on the streets dally the trafiic problem has #eally become an engineering question and it i from this angle that Caph ‘Whitehurst has attacked it. Only a certain number of cars can be accom- modated at a specific point and presum- ing that the operators of these cars handle them properly it then becomes | & question of providing road space! for the freest Slow of traffic. The in-| tersection of Eighteenth street and| Columbia road, for instance, has al- ready been improved by cutting through | @ roadway morth of the corner for and industry fails, production is cur- talled, work is reduced, and the fight for mere existence is resumed with mil- lions of persons suffering. Capital must stand its share of the losses in this period of reduction, & far greater share than labor, if trouble of serious nature profits far in excess of labor and through the efforts of labor. The swing of the pendulum has brought new con- ditions and capital must be willing to face those conditions. To do other- wise would be a step backward in our boasted civilization. ———ra——————— A man who claims he is Al Capone's father says he is coming to America to box his son’s ears. Whether or not his claims to parentage are true, by all means let him come. Uncle Sam has been shaking his finger at the little “skeezicks,” and even threatening him, but just cannot do a thing with him. r———— The New German Navy. “Our future lies upon the water,” said Wiliam of Hohenzollern on & famous occasion some twenty-five years ago, when Germany was basking in the heyday of imperfal glory. It turned out to be no idle prophecy. Until the Germans, blindly led to the slaughter by the Prussian militarists, staked their all on the throw of war in 1914, their prowess at sea was vast and growing greater from day to day. The Kalser's navy was the second strangest afloat. The magnificent fleets of Hamburg and Bremen comprised a merchant marine which was fast crowding that of Great | Britain for supremacy. Memories of their glorious and only recent past “upon the water” will le- gitimately crowd into Germans’ thoughts today as they launch their newest and mightlest post-war cruiser, the already famed Ersetz Preussen. The soldier- president, Field Marshal von Hinden- burg, will christen the ship which marks the birth of the new German navy. The whole world has been talk- ing about Ersatz Preussen for two years, because of the secrecy in which her construction has been veiled. Re- stricted by the treaty of Versailles to the building of & navy including only six capital ships aggregating sixty thousand tons, German marine engineers were confronted with a task which taxed their ingenuity. Just how they have met it is not known in detail; hence, Ersatz Preus- | zen’s nickname of the “mystery cru!ur."i | She is called a “vest pocket battleship,” too, because enough about her design kas leaked out to make certain that, though of only ten thousand tons, there have actually been packed Into her twenty thousand tons of fighting strength. [Ersatz Preussen, in other .| words, is sccounted the equal of any two ten-thousand cruisers now afloat. If she is that, the Germans have con- trived, - within the supposed naval Mmitations imposed by their conquerors in 1919, to get the equivalent of twelve there who are well beyond the three- score-and-ten mark. Notice, it says wair ——— ‘The cure for Europe’s ills is a twenty- year peace, according to world authori- ties. That always has been the cure, but how often has the turbulent Conti- nent been willing to try it? —————————— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Rates. It won't be so long ere the song of the sea, And the sunshine that glistens so bright and so free, ‘Will tempt us to wander once more ‘Where the Summer hotels are so thick and so tall That the view you can buy is exceed- ingly small ©Of the waves as they break on the shore. But each year we assemblé and faith- fully try ‘To obtain all the pleasure our purses will buy; And we figure by day and by night On a debt whose small items will hourly increase, Where freckles are twenty-five dollars apiece And mosquitoes cost ten cents a bite. An Exaggerated Comparison. “What makes you think that man is necessarily a great statesman?” asked Senator Sorghum. “Because he is a clever lawyer.” “My dear sir, to assume that a clever lawyer is necessarily a great statesman is the same as taking it for granted that a numismatician is a financier.” Jud Tunkins says the right of way for the pedestriam doesn’t mean any- thing when it's always filled up with moving vehicles. Transportation. The house fly is a gentle brute Whose kindliness is misapplied. He thinks the little germs are cute And wants to give them all a ride. Deep Distrust. “That man is a great reasoner.” “Yes,” replied Farmer Corntossel. “He’s one of those people that lose your confidence hecause you know they’re smart enough to convince you Whether they're right or not.” Impending Cure. “Some of the problems of human existence are becoming more and more complex.” “Yes,” replied Mr. Meekton. “I can hardly wait for my daughter’s gradua- tion essay to let us know what to do Retrospect. The days that are gone, they will never return; And as Memory pauses to Mft The clouds from the past, many days we discern That We wouldn't have back as a gift. “Tain't allus lucky to git whut you was goin’ after,” said Uncle Eben. & man has missed bein’ arrested under de game laws, simply because he was & bad shok” D. C., TUESDAY, THIS AND THAT ‘The outstanding fault of the average home garden is that it lles too open to the sight. At first blush it might seem to the uninitiated that this would be a good th'ng, and is as it ought to be. But the concealment principle in Nature is & go:d one. Recall your last trip through a forest. ‘The lure was the intrigue of the unknown. You were mot exactly sure what you were going to run into. There were wild flowers to find, sudden opened vistas to see, perhaps snakes to en- counter. K% X Mystery is at the heart of the un- known, and even civilization should not willingly forego it. Even the bit of civilization known as a garden, whether of the formal or informal type, should contain its ele- ments cf the unknown. That seems to be the »eason why the unfenced, wide-open garden can never be as soothing, as pleasant, as iovely a garden as the place properly hedged in, preferably walled in. ‘The definite boundary, whatever its type, is not so much to keep other people out as to keep its charm in. EKE® Far charm, in the true sense, a gar- den must have even mozue than a beau- tifyl woman. Tts wall, or hedge, or fence (clothed in vines), should hide from the passing world the weaith of beauty which is behind it, so that even the owner, as well as he knows every inch of his garden, may have a sense of anticipa- tion when he returns to it. No cne should willingly give up this sense, either in life, books, gardens or | whatnot. It is the spice of lving. Remember what a great writer once said, “It is better to travel hopefully than to argive.” There can be no hope left, in the garden, if every Tom, Dick and Harry, at a mere glance, can take in ever? h corner of it. * ok kX Even so little a thing as a gate wilt do a great deal t> preserve desirable expectation. The mere lifting of the hand to the latch is a physical move- ment toward a mental realization. It becomes important, and is not a slight action. The visitor may be able to see over or even through the gate, but the fact that he lifts his hand t> open it forces him to do physical labor, although in yminiature, and this, owing to the curious construction of human beings, gives him a mental urge toward the garden. If you want visitors really to like your garden, therefore, give them some. enter it. This is one of the funda- mentals of modern psychology which may be applied to the home as well as to the school. Splendid use is made of this principle in the teaching of chil- dren, That which they do with their own hands tends to be interesting, and becomes a part of their life. It is not enough just to lcok, or to listen. That is why many natures tend in time to become dissatisfied with the movies, the talkies, the radio. “Spec- tator sports,” as some call sitting in the grandstand, cannot take the place of movement on the field. T Every garden which aims to utilize psychology as well as the physiolegy of the planter and cultivator, should possess its hidden features. The English perhaps understand these matters better than Americans, and u‘hmsybe the French better than the = ‘Their bountiful 2s the hawthorn use of hedges, such and the hemlock, thing to do themselves in order to| BY CHARLES F. TRACEWELL. comes abcyt not only because they prize privacy above display, but also because they know that concealment until the right moment is one of the basic prin- ciples of art. ‘We were interested the other day in reading in an old English garden book instructions as to the proper division of an acre plot into a number of smaller | gardens, each hidden from the other, each leading to the oth:cr, each inde- pendent but giving rise to expectations. So close is literature to gardening that Charles Dickens called one cf his Dbest novels (perhaps his best) by the interesting title, ‘omg Expectations. * % The great expectation which a hedge raises in the mind and heart of the garden investigator must not be disap- Pointed. The garden which is cut up into com- ponent gardens, as it were, must con- tain real and delightful surprises. rate, Preferably they consist of it2ms which might go unremarked in ordinary flat gardens, but which, in their given sit- uation, strike the beholder with all the force of novelty. EE An example follows: Two lilacs form a sort of gateway to the territory behind the garage. In most small home grounds this place is nothing or worse than nothing. In some, alas, it is a veritable junk heap! 1In others it harbors the com- post pile, a necessary although seldom beautiful adjunct to a garden. In the garden under discussion the ground bchind the garage is on a gentle slcpe, and the gardener has bisected this with stepping stones, and planted wild flowers to either slde. | The visitor comes upon this little place, now just beginning, with a com- Pplete sense of surprise, He can see at a glance the beauty which will inhabit it & month or two ence. Its novelty pleases the mind. * X kX that has been said here Nothing should be construed as in favor of the messy, overworked garden. There are too many of these already. Far better is the plain, simple, flat, perfectly open garden, if its opposite must be achieved by many fac- | tors into an indiscriminate heap, piling one thing almost on top of another. Such a garden can possess little in- irigue, because it gives the spectator a headache to contemplate it. Between this extreme and that of Japancse sim- plicity, as represented by a single rose |In a vase, there can be no room for doubt in cholce. Every one would take the rose, but till there is no reason to stop with one, or to feel offended with plenty, so long as the artistic cye and hand have conspired to secure beauty. * K K % Six roses, or a dozen roses, properly placed in the right vase, are better, in most situations, than a single rose in a tall vase. The latter was designed for the simple Japanese room, not a modern American living or dining room. Our gardens fundamentally must fit American conditions; that is why we cannot imitate either the English or the Japanese. Most of us may be able to introduce the element of surprise only here and there in a few features which might strike the expert as childjsh, al most. if he did not consider (as he would, if he were a real expert) the mind and heart which strove for per- ’mflnlmmn the intent, imd g » the ul?ert. ‘would be more delighted with this little attempt than with some grand realiza- tion which have cost thousands of dollars easy, Highlights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands OLOGNE GAZETTE. — Herr Flettner, inventor of the rotor- ship, stimulated by its success, has applied the same principles to a large automotive vehicle, the first model of which has been con- structed under his direction at the Krupp Works. "™is conveyance is di- vided into two parts, the first contain- ing a modification of his rotary motor and the second the compartments for passengers and freight. The Krupp firm soon will begin production on a definite schedule. speed and moblility are easil; A flexible chassis, instead of & ri one, will make the car much easer to han- dle and guide in traffic and, it is be- lieved, also will reduce accidents. The | principles of the rotor ship, with blades and funnels operating sutomatically in the development and application of power, will be used on this new lan vehicle. * X X % Hungary Will Net Harbor Criminal Refuges. Berliner Tageblatt.—In -recent years the police systems of the world have been virtually welded into an interna- tionally functioning organization. Crim- inals no longer escape by fleelng from the land of their misdeeds. lungary is one of the latest nations assenting to procedures for the safety and protec- tion of decent people everywhere, and offenders from other reglons no will find a refuge there and, of course, the benefits are reciprocal. Two mur- derers from Budapest were arrested in Luebeck and will be returned to Hun- gary. It is becoming increasingly dif- cult for evildoers to escape the conse- quences of their acts due to the ef- clency of the international police radio and telegraphic equipment. * k% % Inoculations Urged To Curb Diphtheria in Ireland. Irish Independent, Dublin—A few years ago the Irish Independent called attention to the emphatic pronounce- ment by Sir George Newman that “No local authority responsible for the heaith of children should be satisfied that it has done its duty until every pazent knows that his child can be in- oculated against htheria with safety and with reasonable certainty of com- plete protection.” Dr. J. C. Saunders, medical officer of health, in his report to the Cork Corporation gives illumi- nating figures to support this opinion. While the incidence of diphtheria among children who had not been im- munized was, in a recent period, 19.6 per 1,000, 1t was only 2.1 per 1,000 among those who had been immunized, and even in some cases the figures that make up the 2.1 per 1,000 are -open to doubt. Last year 59 children died from diphtheria in Cork; not one of this number had ever been even partially immunized. As a result, to some extent, of the cam conducted by the Irish Independent immunization method has recently been Dublin. buelélth more intensive efforts Its advantages lnl man, who hurls his “tub” at you in fic- tion, by all independent accounts knows less about it in absolute fact than you'd imagine. Somebody in Sydney was tax- ing a Johnny-come-lately with the ab- sence of baths on his native mudbank | the other day. “Oh, but you know,” he | protested, “nearly all the modern houses have bl&l: roxms.;"]"Ahl That must be since ustralians began In, ’Ome,” sald a still, small voice., Lo * ok ko | U. 8. Trade Activities Held | Greater Than Education. | Excelsior, Mexico City.—The United States has not entered South American countries with the same eagerness in educational and cultural matters as in trade. They have been willing to ex- d | Ploit Latin America industrially, but hage not cared to exert themselves so much in bringing Amegican ideals be- fore the people. In South America most of the white race of pure strain cling to the ns and culture of the na tions from which they came. Thus, Spaniards, Portuguese, Germans and Italians living in Argentina, Chile, Uru- guay and Brazil continue to cherish the sentiments and customs of their native lands. In other coypntries, like Colom- bia, Bolivia, Uruguay, Brazil, Peru and Ecuador, where mixed blood predomi- nates, Anicrican intellectual penetra- tion has been perhaps most intensive. mezuell.tbec:us:fl:r }:dlocnunn. has most smerican of South American nations. * K Use Bloodhounds To Track Auto Thieves. News-Chronicle, London—Faced with new difficulties in tracking down the thieves of today, to whom the motor car has given a vastly increassd mobility, the police are adopting new methods. A striking development in Essex wa the use of bloodhounds in an effort trace the perpetrators of a robbery al- leged to have occurred in the county. Following the report that a car was missing a the police threw a cordon around the district concerned and a pair of bloodhounds belmfmg W. Goodchild, a farmer, were called in. The hounds were those used in the search last year for the assailant of the Romford schoolgirl, Mary O'Connor, who was attacked in a wood between Romford and Brentwood. Picking up a trail, the hounds led the way across fields, over a stream and through a covert. Later two suspects were arrested. oo Rain in the South. From the Charlotte News. If the weather reports still show a deficiency in rainfall, we shall begin to believe it the standard must have been set during the year that Noah built his ark. Place for Ex-King Alfonso. From the San Bernardino Sun. Maybe they could use ex-King Al- fonso in Nicaragua. -t 0Old Sol Knows His Time. be | prom the Indianapolis Sta: Communities now on daylight saving time are kidding themselves that they have fooled the sun. —— Merely Subject. From the St. Louls Times. ° in Bangkok, is merely a subject in Johns Hopkins. | These, however, need not be elabo- | mnlch. therefore, was | lieves, to | lake at the top of MAY 19, NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM LG M. THE ASIATIC ARCADIA. The Rev. Philo Laos Mills. Washington: ‘Wm. J. Gallery & Co. Reviewed by Thom:s Henry. Here is a mine of rare learning gar- nered from the ends of the earth— from archeology, ethnology, poetry, philosophy and tneology. Through the ages men have gone on glamorous pllgrimages beyond the world’s ends for mystical guerdons. So | the conquistadores struggled through i the Florida swamps in search for the fountain cf perpetual youth. So Ar- thur's knights rode over bridges of fire into enchanted lands for the Holy Grail. And so, 20 years ago now, Fr. Mills started eut to follow the beck- oning of a grander vision, He sought the Garden of Eden. Now he has published a book about his long, strange pilgrimage t> the towers of the sunrise. The quest is done. He has stood, he believi at the edge of Eden amid luminous mountains close to the roof of .the world. He has come back to the Mausoleum of the Magi, as he calls his little house in Washington, almost surrounded by the gravestones of two cemeteries, its walls hung with his paintings of his visions of the paradise he_sought. Fr. Mill ccomplished painter, mu- sician an et, as well as distinguished scholar of Oriental languages, went into the high Himalayas in search of an Eden which, he was convinced, actually existed, and still would retain some of the dmarks by which it could be identified from the biblical descrip- tions. 1 was not altogether a physical quest, alihough it carried him for thou- ‘l:‘znds of miles into the world’s highest | mountains. But it led also {hrough the folk-lore of many peoples, the Iearllen script and poetry of man, the writings of the Hebrew prophets and Christian apostles, the conclusions of geclogists and anthropolcgists, and the visions of saints, mystics and poets. It has been a pilgrimage through mys- tical realms of time as well as space. Fr. Mills' trail starts from Sumer and the dawn of human _civilization, 4,000 or 5,000 years before Christ, when a strange people emerged suddenly out of the dense darkness of man's past and began buudlng monuments and leaving records on clay in Mesopotamia. Before them are only scattered frag. ments of human history. They ap- peared on the edge of the dark past with most of the institutions of civili- zation well developed. Studying their tablets and those of the later Baby- |lonians, Fr. Mills discerned frag- mentary allusions, .he says, to a_moun- tain paradise. It was obvious that the Sumerians were immigrants from somewhere, bringing with them a long tradition and developed culture. er some seals similar to -those of the Sumerians were found in the Indus valley of Northern India, possibly left behind by the migrating people. It was the trail which they might have fol- lowed from the upper reaches of the Vale of Cashmire, which would have answered the description of a moun- tain paradise, down into Mesopotamia. Similar written symbols recovered in China, he believes, are proof that the movement of les was not the other | ¥ay around, but that a common stock ' came out of Himalayas in two di- rections. Then in the folk lore of lon, ' gendry reece, Scandina Ireland and the Slavic peoples, he fu’:’d Teferences to a mystical mountain to water and thence it parted four heads.” i river,” he says, “issues from Eden as a single stream and has no particular name. Hence it is certainly :‘l%‘e rt:le Euphrates or one of the divided Tan through the land of Eden, watered the garden, and then gave birth to for other streams which are the four greaf rivers of the world. Now from the earliest times the watershed of Asia was looked upon as the source of the heavenly rivers. The Indus figures as paradise river par excellence— assoclated with the beginning of things, the principal waterway of early man. The Sumerians came from the ‘upper Indus. The primitive Egyptians must have hailed from there. The Persian paradise was on or gear the Indus. The Chinese and Tibetan heavenly kingdom points at least to the upper Indus or that part of the world.” Fr. Mills set out on the search for Eden and all the trails, he says, to converge in the cloud-washed depths iof the Himalayas about the Manasaro- war lakes in the upper Cashmire whence comes the Indus. “In view of the vast pile of evidence we have accumulated in favor of a flowering paradise at high altitudes,” he says, “the idea of an elevated garden of pleasure, even at 15,000 feet, is as scientifically desirable as it is patristi- cally approved. Accustomed as we are to associate volupttious gardens with more or less tropical conditions in the lowlands, it almost takes the breath away to see palms and pomegranates climbing to almost unearthly heights, to pick apples and apricots at 12,000 feet or higher, roses at 15,000 and rhododendrons at 18,000 feet. Here was the Gan Eden of the human race, the roof garden of the world. But, he points out, the climate has changed since the days of man’s exile. “One hesitates to picture,” he says, “what the hot springs must have done to Manasarowar in those early days, ‘when even now there are rich pastures watered by crystal streams. It must have been a veritable fairyland of gorgeous flowers and enchanted fryits. And when we consider that practically all the fathers speak of a highlang the world, shut off from the habitable world by high moun- tains which cannot be crossed, we are reminded of those mysterious mountain gardens and inaccessible shining lakes of which the saints, poets and ecstatics are so eloguent.” ‘Thence, says Fr. Mills, came fallen man, downward to the four cor- ners of the earth—proved by converging evidence from all the sciences. So he went on his pilgrimage to Cashmire, to the foot of Mount Everest. And he says: “With all the critical sifting we have made of such a boundless collec- tion of sources-from every quarter of the globe we challenge any fair-minded critic to deny that we have actually come to the one paradise of our ancestors.” ‘What of the Olympia? From the San Antonto Express. It is almecst two years since a Navy board, headed by Rear Admiral George C. Day, inspected the protected cruiser Olympia and recommended either a sal 's | letics, 1898, and bore the Un- 's body fro the;ltnlud States after the Bru'-b";W" Junked under any circumstances. The question of the Olympia’s final disposition was recalled when veterans but zn aberiginal stream which | bY d | though no definite plan for m France to| doi Dewey's squadron and their friends at the Philadelphia Navy e Ry ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. ‘What is your question? Whatever it may be, uniess it be a request for legal, medical or financial advice, it will answered without cost to you, and you will receive the reply in a personal let- ter. Write your question clearly and briefly, inclose 2-cent stamp for return postage and address The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washington, D. C. Q. Are all the Olympic_games to be held in Los Angeles?—G. L. A. The track and field games are to be held in Los Angeles. The Winter games are to be held at Lake Placid, N. Y., February 4-13, 1932, Q. Who wrote the theme song, “The Devil Is Afraid of Music"?—S. 8. A. The composer is Willard Robeson. Q. What percentage of the people of the United States can borrow money from banks?—J. H. S. A. F is estimated that about 10 per | cent of the people keep their affairs in such shape that their credit would be good with banks. Q. When was the rank of commodore discontinued in the United States Navy? R. R. A. It was abolished by Congress in ll‘ss,lsu-hen commodores became rear ad- mirals, Q. How long does it take for bees to develop from eggs?—C. E. W. A. In their metamorphosis bees pass through four stages, namely, egg, larva, pupa and adult. The queen devel in 16 days, the worker in 21 and drone in 25 days. Q. How many people are there to the §u;res mile in China and Japan?— A The area of the whole territory of the republic of Ch é proper. For instance, the Kiangsu, with 33,700,000 le 5 z :gsa populated unit in the world. Japan with of 148,756 square miles and a tion of approximately 62,940,000 density of population of 423 persons square mile. i £ 2 ¥ Q. Why does the Government the funeral expenses of members of Congrezss?—G. E. C. e 1 provided by lx:;'mcuu fu- expen ‘mem| of shall be paid. 1t is mefloo?’h: and fitting tribute to men who died while in the service of an country. : Q. What is Fletcherizing?—A. E. A. The word is derived from the name of ‘Horace Fletcher, who advessied s continued chewing or masticating of Q. When and whese was the first pel;c;(nm started in this country?— A. The first paper mill in Americs was established in 1690 by Rittenhouse at Roxborough, near delphia. Q. How many mAth%hmmn.l fore . The Forest Service that there are 2,700 regular empl -"h the na- tional forests. In there 3,000 forest guards in Summer to protect the against fire. From time to time there are ad- ditional temporary workers employed :m%f Reform in Coll Appraised as for fire fighting, but the number vae ries from year to year, the maximum number being 4,000. Q. Please give me information con- gerning the origin of the Girl Scouts— 'A. Girl Scouts, the American sisters of the Girl Guides of Europe, were of Sir Robert Baden-Powell, the father of all scout- urged and inspired the under- Q. What is the full name of Prince Prince Charles Mein- e e ;Belclum, Duke of Brabant, Q. What is the meaning of the slang word “gadget”?—S. H. B. A. It is applied to a thousand dif- ferent things. ‘What is izens' Alliance G. A. A. It is & group of Wi to e the purpose of the Oit- o!'uhm‘bn,m D. Cr— ‘ashingtonians cause of na- the District e Athletics ubtful Step —_————— Logic in the reform adopted by Co- lumbia University in major athletic con- tests is conceded by those who discuss the subject, but scme doubt is as to the possibility of acting in the face of public interest in the great con- tests of the college world. As W“ of Pennsylvania is-held to be “Abuses have grown up around inter- ::MIU h‘ l'.hln’:l!g .ndl":slfl-, of our er unive: says the Detroit Free Press, with the remark that “Columbia has broken the ice in an effort to remedy some of them.” The Free Press offers the analysis of the sit- uation: “The Columbia plan is eventually to lead to the com; de- commercialization of athletics at that institution; and if it is a success With these and many other clues|other universities are not adopt 1f. The essence of it is the ‘med | ting of athletics in their proper with relation to other undergraduaf activities. Will this take the zest out of intercollegiate contests? Wil young men from Morningside Heights here- after go into a scrimmage with Ithaca with the same laggard step that takes them to a lecture on Sophocles? Once they have adjusted themselves to the nflfw %fier they probdbly will not miss e old.” that athletic prestige which many hdknhba:vnqymmm- “Of all things!” cries the Worcester “Dr. Butler its there are foot ball and base But the stadents play theis gh i 51 play and enjoy them. They benefit Mm Linking the action at Columbia with | ¢ the attitude at the University of Penn- sylvania, the Newark Evening News pre- dicts that “the progress ments at these two watched with close attention by the other colleges'and sports followers gen- erally.” The News believes that “the glorification of head coaches and the ‘million dollar gates’ have for years been deplored by those who see in institutions basically intended for intel- lectual rather than physical training of young men and women.” to the details of the new method to be employed at Columbi: ‘To take the place of gate receipts the Butler plan calls for an alumni subsidy through permtne;xt. bee’ndow;nenhu; as huebe:ln suggeste ore by the president, al- amassing such endowments is framed. Coaches, foot ball or other kinds, will under the new plan have no different rank—or emolument—from members of the fac- ulty and will rank with them. This fe ture, of course, is directed at foot ball coaches in the main. The actual direc- tion of athletic administration and financing will be under the authority of the trustees of the university through an enlarged committee on athletics and a director appointed by the president, who will be affiliated with the depart- ment of physical education, with university standing. It is pointed out by the Cleveland Plain Dealer that “this is not the first of xperi- uflk{fi”:mbeh possible solution of the b- lem what to do with old razor blldglrg Make It Real Snappy! From the Charleston (S. C.) Evening Post. can think of new is to issue & time that the university on Morning- same determination now it may help to lead many of its sister in- Commending the courage dispiayed, thas courage per avers: “Other colleges officially moan the overemphasis upon ath- , but continue that situation by coaches at fancy salaries and foot ball to minate the academic scene. Columbia does something. Hereafter 'S athletic budu'-gm be under “'.:a‘ same regulation as financing ul:e study of Latin and og license with a divorce coupon ————e, Corners, From the Toledp Blade. An optimist can . 3 4 5.0 o0 o o 8 Page Chairman Raskob! to contribute to | ¥ho talks