Evening Star Newspaper, May 23, 1931, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Merning Editien. " WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY.......May 23, 1931 s o o amh SRSl THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company > !ulll;lel Office: 11th St. ai du_ nniylvllllah‘zA'ev i %:gga“ e Bufi.fi_‘fflufim. ce: London, ' Rate by Carrier Within the City. L 4! ith "5,‘.’“.‘,‘5 04 Sinday Siare e O O undays) .60¢ per month i .85¢ per month Sc fl s i st Bl 355, > lay only . All Other States and Canada. Sunda. 12.00¢ . A LAl A y . only i 1mo., ,Member of the Associated,Press. 880C P 3 o ihe R0 Temubtication o ail P es credited Ppape; 1 in this g et The Plot Thickens. Atter. a delay of more than two months, possibly caused by the intricate teail that investigators were forced to follow and their desire for absolute cer- tainty, the Public Utilitles Commission has received the corporation ccunsel's report on the present ownership and management of the Washington gas properties. As far as anybody seems to know, such ownership and manage- ment rests with the Central Public Secvice Corporation of Chicago. The disccvery is made more interest- ing, now, in the light of conflicting an- nouncements which at first divu'ged the- connection between the Washing- ton, gas properties and the Chicago con- cern. Th> whole business revesls an amazing absence of candor and frank- ness, ‘which might well fit other terms. About. March 9 the announcement of 8 new issue of bonds divulged the fact that the Seaboard Investment Trust, a holding company f-rmed to get around certain tiresome obstacles to the pur- chase of local utility stock by foreign interests, had become the Washington and Suburban Companies, and while spokesmen for the gas company were minimizing - the significance of this change of name an announcement from Chicag> stated that the Central Public Cervice Corporation of Chicago had taken over the management of the lo- €31 companiss. “Fhe rapid developments led the Pub- Ne Utitities Commission to -investigate. But "in the face of the Chicago an- neiuncement that the Central Public Service Corporation was going to man- eg* the gas companiss, a statement is- suy2d #° Washington by one of the officials of the local g2s company quoted &' Central Public Service Corporation officia] 25 saying that “The Central Public Service Corporation has no man- 'ment contract with any of the com- panies réferred to (the Washington and Suburban Companies) and hss at no time in ‘the past and ‘does not now, either difectly or, indjrectly, own any stock in any of-these companies.” Whtile this statement was being made, ® ‘crg-distinos telephone conversation between The Star and another eficial all that sort of business. ulw:oon titled to. It is certainly impossible to conduet “business as ususl” if compensations are raduced generally. A reduction of ten per cent from wages means a reduction of more than ten per cent in the buying power of the people. The reduetion of the buying power through the curtail- ment of income of thote who rely upon weekly stipends for everything they need means reduction in production, means reduction of ‘working forces, means ad- ditional idleness. Wage cuts are the beginning of this chain of forces. Price cutting intensifies the process, accel- erates it. Mr. Farrell's plea for wage maintenance and price maintenance is a plea for a return to normal business 33¢ | methods. ' ) Spain Ends State Religion. When it is realized that all of Spain's 132,500,000 inhabitants are adherents of the Church of Rome except a handful of fewer than 50,000, the new republi- can government's proposed termination of the Catholic faith as’the official ! | religion seems all the more remarkable. ! The action signaled at Madrid ensues exactly eighty years to the month since, by the terms of the concordat between the Vatican and the Spanish government, the creed of the Popes became the established denomination. A formal separation of church and state has not yet been proclaimed, be- cause the concordat of May 6, 1851, re- quires to be annulled by mutual agree- ment. But the decrez of Senor Fernando de los Rios, minister of justice i the Zamora cabinet, which was issued yesterday, declares absolute religious freedom of worship fer all denominations in Spain henceforward. Spain thus follows the example of her great Roman Catholic neighber, France. Under the law promulgated at Paris on December 9, 1905, all churches were separated from the ctate. The statute naturally affected the Church of Rome primarily, because of the over- whelming preponderance of Catholi- eism among the French people. Four years before separation of church snd state was ordained, France passed the Associations law, which requires re- ligious communifies to be authorized by the government. No monastic erder can be established or maintained with- out a special Jaw in each particular case. A couple of weeks ago, when Reman Catholic property was being burned and piliaged throughout Spain, Presi- dent Alcala Zamora announced, “I re~ spect all religious creeds.™ He promised that no further 2cts of sacrilege would be commiited against Catholic prop- erty. It may be taken for granted from Senor Zamore's pronouncement thet while -the historic ties uniting church and state are to be broken, members of the Roman faith will have no cause to fesr discriminatory treat- ment by ths rspublican regime. Hith. erto the Cestagliz religion, being of- ficial, was th> cnly one permitted to practice iis beliefs publicly. Other creeds could worship, but had to do so within their own temples, in privacy. In future, all greeds will be equal be- fore the: republican law, as they are in the United States and most countries of the world. A 1t will be intgresting to observe what ©f the Central Public sService Corpors- 20, revea’ed that the Iatter was con-| n'at’ng no change in the manage- 25 th> moment” and that the whole. parpece of the deal, whatever it was, was the injection of the Chicago:sys- ', engineering and accounting methods, with the usual tall ta'k about the great economies thereby to be effected. And about the same time Albert Peirce, president of the Chicagoe con- cern, was informing the Associated Press that no ownership was involved in the deal; that his company would merely | manage the Washington property. Now that the Public Utilities Com-; mission has the corporation councel’s | report, which has not been made public | in jts entirety, but. which presumlhlyi explains the whele series of deals, the | next decision Tagards the matter of | going into court and trying to do seme- thing about it, On the face of it, the Public Utilitles Commission would seem to have no other recoutse, It would at Jeast be enlighteping to learn the | truth. | g | The mayor of Los Angeles, who. walked out from a banquet in Paris | father than drink a tosst to the Presi- | dents of France and the United States, Res ot least the gatisfaction of being | gonspicucus for eccentricit ! e S | ¢ President Hoover's veto of the extra- #ession proposal is one that cannot be @vercome by & two-thirds vote. Se i Farrell Protests Wage Cutting. © At & meeting vesterday in New York @f the American Iron and Steel In- stitute epplause greeted the remarks Qf both Charles M. Schwab, the presi- sort of financial peace is gealed be- tween Madrid and the Vatican when the disestablishment is an accom- plished fact. The old constitution, now suspended, required state support of the Catholic Church. In 1028, the government contributed 62,900,000 pesetas, or roundly $12,500,000, for maintenance of members of different rcligious orders, and upkeep of cathe- drals, churches, chapels, sanctuaries, monasteries and nunneries. ————rt— For the first time in forty-five years no attention at all was paid in Spein 1o the birthday of Alfonso XIIT. Just the c2me he is glive 2nd well, and that nation may yet resume counting and celebrating them, possibly with arrears. ——wo— ‘This is the zeason when the house- wife can truthfully and cheerfully in- form her husband that there is nothing better to strengthen the wrist and finger muscles of the casting hand than beating rugs suspended frem a clothes line. ¢ i The DO-X has been waiting for the new moon to resume its ocesn flight. First it is one thing and then ancther; possibly we may yet hear it {5 waiting for the'next eclipse. SR S SRS S The Air Armada, Wih eix hundred Bnd fifty-nine military planes, the greatest air armada ever -assembled, in full flight from Ci ‘and and Dayton to New York to- d. Washingtonians have just a little more than a week to Wwait to ses this giant concentration of aircraft. Follow- ing mancuvers in New York and Phila- delphia, the pianes are scheduled to darken the skies over the National Capital on May 30. Some of them dant of the Institute, when he said that | ¥} 1and at Bolling Pleld, but the “we have not tried to take our loss of Business out of the hide of the workers | by reducing wage scales” and those of | dames A. Farrell, of president the United States Steel Corporation, to the | effect that “it's & shame that when some of the large companies are trying o maintain wagss others ere cutting them, even when they are affording ofily ‘a three-day-week employment.” Perhaps some of those who are engaged in wage cutting joined in the applause Mr. Farrell was careful nct to mention names, because he seid he did not want to embarrass anybody, though, he added, “it was s pretty cheap sort of business” to cut wages when, as everybody is now saying, what the in ustries most need today is the.ma snance of wage scales in order to Ye- store the buying power of the people. My, Farrell's talk was straight- and frank. majority will go to Langley Pield, Va. and cther bases. Despite the wails of those who de- nounced this experime:t of the Army as a war-like gesture, as & menace to the health of persons in those eities that viewed the armada and as a | ridiculous and unnecessary expenditure |of Government funds, communities al- ready visited by the fiyers have re- ported no ill-health on the part of their citizens, no feeling that it is the first step to war 2nd no shedding of tears over the burning of a few thousand gallons of gasoline. On the contrary, enormous crowds have turned out | everywhere to witness the remarkable !xpe:uus of mofe than six hundred planes in the ski*s and have doubtless felt the renewsd thrill of patrjotism that comes frem sceing thelr coun- try's air defense In action. And so far, which is the most im- pertant of all, po casualties have been the ebiiiiy | conduct long-distance yye scale. Its suc- THE |cess, and there 1s haraly any dount that success will attend the ambitious plan, will demonstrate fine organiza- tion in persomnel, in ships and in main- tenance problems. It is a military ex- periment, pure and simple, but one which gives a fesling of security to the people of this country and pride in the accomplishments of their flying service. .t Actors in England. Honors recently paid to Charles Chap- lin and now being paid to Douglas and Mary Pairbanks in London mark a great change in rclationship in Eng- land between the higher realms of life and the acting profession. It is a far ery from the days when the actor was regarded as a servant and treated as an altogether inferior member of society. pian was rated as but a little bstter than e footman. He might gain the pat- ronage of & member of the nobility and even bask in royal favor, but never as a social equal, or as anything more than & hired entertainer. A reminder of that relationship exists in the tradition that an actor, of any grade or style or specialty, must perform when royaity commands. It was this tradition that | Chaplin défied when he refused to put en a vaudeville show to please the King. In these recent visitations the warmly welcomed exponents of the stage are now world-famed performers for the cinema stage. How far away, indced, the screen from the Globe Theater or the innyard set-up of the traveling troupe! Chaplin, Fairbanks, Pickford, names known in every distant corner of the werld, kno- 1 to the peoples of every race, to those who use every lan- gusge spoken on earth! And not only names to them, but actual personages, familiar in act and gesture and—save Chaplin—in speech. Gone, irrevocably, are the voices of thoze who entsrtained England by the medium ef the theater three centurics ago, even thirty years ago. Most of those who played in the innyards are forgotten beyond any pos- sible recollection. ‘Three centuries hence, it may be, the antics of the “little fellow” of Romany blood and the gymnastics of the bigger fellow and the appealing naivete and attractiveness of his wife will be available for the en» tertalnment of stag> patroms. And no one can possibly foretell what will be the mode of the public stage of that time. The marvels of tomorrow ar: never to be foreseen. et Yale will award the degree of master of fine arts to graduates of its depart- ment of drama.. This is as it should one of the finest of ‘arts. Yet if it were not for those reliable old pinch-hitters Shakespeare, Sheridan, Euripides and Sophocles it would suffer some pretty bad slumps. ——r e It is to be hoped that the young ora- tors, while in Washington for the an- nual competition for national honors, will not be beguiled into logking at the fat volumes of the Congreesjonal Record a3 a token of opportunity for future of speech in debate. N Arlington County, Va., i warranted in putting on s little “chest” after having been granted the spetial dis- an executive order bestow- ing on 1t ‘benefit of Pederal admin- istrative thlents. To those Washingtonians who fear lest the Chicago gangsters have “museled in” here and started a crime crusade it may be pointed out that the reeent happenings here have not been of a character to require expert- ness, B SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Out of Season. "Tain’ the thing to holler, Raisin’ a distress When s ation Calls for thoughtfulness. It's a waste o' power, An’ it doegn't seem jes' right Usin’ up yer valor When there isn't any fight. People a5 is patient— Them's the ones as acts When they've sifted matters ‘To the pottom facts. Dogs that does much berkin’ Ain’t counted on to bite— Usin’ up their valor ‘When there isn't any fight Proof of Affection. “1 have heard semg doubts expressed a8 to whether you really loved your country.” “I don't see how anybody could ex- press such & doubi,” answered Senator Sorghum; “not after all the money I have spent on my country in elections at one time or another” . A Gift. “I regard conversation as a gift,” re- marked the studious woman. | “It usually is,” replied Miss Cayenne “1f people had to pay for it there would be much less of it.” The Charm of Novelty. | Pamiilar pleasures never seem To gladden man's dull lot. Of those that we have not. 1f skies were slways bright and blue You'd pay your eash and gladly, too, To see a tHunderstorm. The Unreal and the Real. “Most of our ills Jare purely imag- inary.” “Yes,” replied Farmer Corntossel. “But when you eat mushrooms and de- velop toadstool sympoms, there is usually something more than imagi- | naticn to be reckoned with.” A Reminder. Oh, ye who vaunt your pride so bold, *Twere meet that you recsll ‘That maxim old In which we're told ‘What goes before a fall! said Uncle Eben. “Onless yoh han' ‘em mighty kyshful, one of 'em's gwin- ter bu'n yoh, sho'." e We've Paid in Recitations. Feem the Loncuburs News. omebody 18 mow telling us that tho :e:merh‘ T was ns' v iead g% have the poem ving had to pay in lives for it Even in Shakespeare's’ time the thes-| be; the modern theater is, or embodies, | ¥t ‘We slight the joys we have and dream | “Doan git too many iron; in de flah,” | = ‘Times lc:“" and we with them, says an old saying. b:“ truer of nothing more ship. Ap modern courtship is both amusing and interest to an old-timer. If you watch the boys and girls of today as they “keep company.” as we used to say, you will discover that they than ecourt- pany, three’s a crowd.” A crowd is what they all lke, appar- ently. than to have three or four swains hang- ing around at once. | seems to mind this state of affairs in the least. They mostly spend their tim as we have been able to disce ing no attention at all to the as far , pa young | attention to her. PR The young lady. for her part, does | not permit the boys to interfere with | her tasks in the least. If sh> is mowing the lawn, she goes right ahead mowing it: Some of you old-timers might think the boys would help her at the ta: but not & bit of it. . She is just as able to mow & lawn as any one of the opposite sex, and neither expects nor desires aid. [ So the boys taks to playing base ball. * ok ¥ % |.,Now we have the modern, outdoor, athletic courtship in full swing. There are all her ycung barbarians at play, every last one of them, each having a good time, after his fancy. Not one of these fine pays the slightest attentlon to the lady. Well, maybe there is a slight bit of exaggeration in that. Occasionally one of the boys will stop his fling of the base ball to give the girl a playful push with his elbow as she whirrs by. Maybe one of them will even go to the extent of drorptn. a blade of grass down the baek of her neck. Now, this looks almost something like! But no, our young modern miss re- gards this with no emotion whatever, can see. She goes right ahead mowing. 8% S By this time the boys have got enough of Lhmwm,othe bpll around, and have {(m back to the porch, to wait for Miss inerva to get through with her task. We will be reminded that this is not courtship, nor even “keeping company”; that neither the boys nor t! glrl take themselves at sll serfously at their age, bu; meet simply as friends and com- rades. This is essentially true. The better class of boys and girls, despite all the bunk which has been ten about modern youth, seem far less interested in sex, as sex, than did the young men and women of past ages. ‘The difference seems to be that these oung moderns, in most cases—or should it be just many cases?—realize that they are not yet able to think of marriage, and therefore giudly put off the consideration. This gives them a care-free attitude which did not mark their predecessors. Perhaps they have gotten farther away from the old ideal of two souls, born the world apart, etc. * ok The old-fashionsd courtship, even in its preliminary steges, tock 1isz.f very seriously b There was a deal of telephoning, and BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Certainly this can | going to have discarded the axiom, “Two’s com- | Nothing suits the young lady better | And none of the young gentlemen | | lady, or at least pretending to pay ro| either pro or con, as far as an observer | EVENING STAR, WASHINGLON, THIS AND THAT _ i sitting in the parlor, and talking, apd the theater, and buying candy, and that sort of thing. And three were a crowd. The affair, even in its preliminary s , Was a lighter version of the old court- ship. We were reading in & book of Olive Schreiner's the other day about the Boer courtship. If the young man had serious inten- | tions, he rcde across the veldt many miles to the home of his intended. All was formal very solemn. and in the mo talk had been satisfactory, the man formally asked for the girl's Otherwise he simply rode away, and that was that. . | The American idea of courtship, be- | ginning with the Gibson girl era, was much more extensive in scope. At no time before or since, in the history of the world, did going with a girl, as it was phrased, involve such a vast amount of talk. ‘There was a certain patter. or “line,” | as it came to be known later, expected | from each party. This was typical | small talk, but quite distinguished by | its utter lack of sense. Let no one hop up t> inform us that 'oung people ctill talk so, No doubt they do. to some extent, but we re- | main firm in our conviction that in the old days. when vou and I were young. the b°ys and girls could use | more ‘words and say I¢ss than at any | other period in ihe earth's history. * % * If a young man of that era wanted to call up a young lady and invite her to the next dance of his college fraternity, it took him at least a solid hour on the phone to say, “I would like to take | month.” Of course, he actually said mwch | more, but if vou had asked him after- ward what the rest of it could have | been, h» would not have been able to tell you a syllable of it. Or if you had | been curious as to what the young lady | could have found to say for one solid hour, plus perhaps 15% minutes, he | could have told you mo more of that, | either. Yet at the time their conversation seemed quite normal and satisfying to each one of them, as no doubt it was, in the main. It was just the old way of doing things. (Not! tHat we have | resisted the temptation of saying “of going places and d things.”) | Today the hoys would come slong in the flivver at about 10 p.m., and give several startling and vicious honks on | stick her head out the window, where- | upon the invitation to the dance would be given without spology. 1If Myrtle | chose, she would | she wouldn’t, it could be simpler | than that? Perhaps some one will insist on tell- |ing us that life, after all, is not ~ bit | erent from what it used to be. c2d |that we should see the cars parked glong the country roads at'night. No | doubt this is all true, but we ave desl- | ing with the first and superficial aspeets of courtship, and steadfastly refuse to consider the other matter here. ‘There can be little doubt that times | change, and that we, human beings all, | change with them. Perhaps most of | these changes are superficial. Which of them are for good, and which for 111, 1t is difficult, if not impossible, to tell. All those who value independence will b willing to in the.case th= b>vs and girls d especially the | girls) ~that here is a step forward. Belasco, Genius David Belasco has no successor and his place could not have been taken by another at any time, in the judgment of the American rm As death comes to him while still engaged in his work, recognition is given to his artistry, his grrodmnn the popular taste, his lity in developing actors, and his capacity for pul lfe into the plays to which he gave his attention. “The finest creation of David Belasco was Da lasco himself,” says the New York Sun, peinting to his unique distinction in seeing that “the modern theater is the y of the wedding of art and 4ndt 'y, and declaring: “The theater of the future will have its own , some of them great and distinguished. It bably will never have another ll‘);; filluo. IlThe e‘IE- ments compounding his peculisr genius were too mn{ and too diverse to be readily assembled again in one person- ality.” “It was inevitable,” thinks the Rich- mond News Leader, “that he should leave some enduring mark, and the fact that it was on the physical stage rather than the emotional does not detract from its puEluunee." ‘The Houston Chronicle holds that he “will be re- membered 30 long s the theater remains and 50 long as tread the The Davenport t describes his career as ‘“eventful -'x:d wonder{l;ll..: while the Birmingham News avers “Lo one even remotely ltzrmhed his atness” and “he was undisputed leader in all branches of theatrical thought.” The Minneapolis Star states that “many of his productions are land- marks in American drama.” “An important stone moved from the theate: sound fmmdl!lofl,"k hlh! with the eonclusion that “if there is a suceessor he will only succeed in imitat- ing Belasco, the master.” The Newark Even News asserts that “there is void wi once he stood.” The Buffal Evening News explains his work with the sta nt # “he had the inherent faculty of living the scemes and char- acters which he presented.” The Hamilton (Ontario) Spectator, calling him “the premier showman,” sees “‘no one qualified to put on the mantle he has Iaid down.” D Recalling Belasco’s early days in Cali- fornia, the Oskland Tribune declares that “he looked and acted the great producer, and from the days when he was called boy until he was acclaimed a master in his profession he held to his ideals.” The Seattle Daily Times records it to his credit that, with David Warfield, he "mu{ht a theatrical trust and won, blazing the way to subsequent independence for the American stage. The Columbus Ohio State Journal re- marks that “for five decades he had been devoted to the self-appointed task of developing and reflnlng stagecraft.’ The Madison Wisconsin State WI e to !h; theater, the Harrisburg Telegrap) hi ‘a teacher, a philosopher and & scholar. “He was highly influential in shaping the stage in this " according to while the lieves that “the name of Belasco is permanently associated with the Golden Age of the American theater,” and the Ann Arbor Daily News offers the judgm in his declining years he was a bulwark of the stage. Another Belasco may be a few yéars; indeed one is . But Belascos are few and far between,” The Scranton Times avers. that “not“only in the world of make-believe but in the great outside well, 's name will long by deal. could gild a tedious hour—end ho of them for millions!—with innocent il- Inzied=!" The Fort Wayne News-Ser‘inel Gecleses: “His courzgs and idesls have kep: gliv: the hopes cf many that the theater really would never die and that around some corner must be & renais- Had No Rival, Declares Press| rds.” | 'a| Star calls him “the great exponent of of Theater, sance . It was Belasco's fortune | | that he lived long enough to see the| oo of this rebirth.” The Jersey | City Journal recalls: “One of his boasts | | was that his plays were put on with his | | own money. ‘Angels’ were not in his| | dictionary. His friends were not im- posed upon. If he jost, he lost his own | money. 1t he won, he put his winnings |into a new drama.” | “He shed luster on the city of I'is | birth. Ssn Prancisco will genuinely | mourn the death of her distinguished | son,” states the Chronicle of that city, nwznmn! that “his greatest triumphs | were due £ his mastery of human ma- | terial.” The Toledo Blade “galaxy of stars, all of them brightened and burnished by the great master pfo- ducer.” The St. Louis Times sets to his eredit “his genius for re-rendering, in his own way, the work of countless others and of making skill and talen:' and beauty where they were not.” The ansas City Star recalls his record as “an almost uncanny judge of talent and s g‘e‘nius in the directing of it. e Asbury Park Press gees in him “Amer- | lea’s greatest showman, dean of the the- ter and one of its most colorful char- cters.” “He was an artist from the begin- . No detall was too difficult if it lent reality to s production,” as ap- gr{i.sed by the Salt Lake Deserst News. e Atlanta Journal emphasizes the fact that “a ‘Belasco production’ became 4 synonym for artistic settings and sub- | tle atmosphere.” The Worcester Tele-l | gram refers to the “magic” of the * asco touch.” The Springfield (Ma Republican believes that “he invested his achievements with his own person- ality,” while e Miami Dally News bolds that he “never failed to develop | the full dramatie possibilities of his pro- ductions” and the Rockford Morning | the realistic stage.” The Hartford Ti.m!s; 1hua.s “h"ldlln ;mh"l]l;finl of the matic world and hold upon the imagi- nation of the public.” ee it | R — | . s |Afraid of Enforcement. | Prom the Yakima Daily Republic. | , 1f the people generally could by turn- | lnkover their hands, by mu:{ thelr or by some hocu:-rocua secure uine and thorough enforcement of W, it 15 much to be doubted that they attitsds et th is attitu at there is something sinister bout bona e law enlorcemegt‘ some- Ihfigz that ’;nun be avoided. regon is a good example—the last Legislature created a State ‘::omubuhry and Gov. Meier has been getting ready | to put the act in force and get the | organization under way. He has asked Gen. Smedley D. Butler.to organize the force, and the hair-triggered Marine has accepted. Butler has nothing to do With the merits of the case, except that in the minds of some people he stands {.cr ‘t‘he heg-ur?‘rlu tm of official who Suppose; scare criminals inf 'o;drhlm. & ut Oregon people are afraid that the | pian, with or without Butler's help, will succeed, and they do not propose to have any honest-to-goodness brand of Iaw enforcement in their midst. f | referendum ngemlon is therefore being | prepared, and the bill will be put to the test of a popular vote. The argume: for the referendum is thet the estab- lishment of a State police body “would endanger the welfare and interests of citizens of Oregon” to the extent “that revolt against enforcement of law would become so widespread that the harm done to the State & e o would be irreparable. work, but the i le e S 1, S the State and make the prevention and nt of crime more nearly possi encugh % seare The poori o s use of t:uml’!:r'-flmA "l’:ey don't rul‘l'y‘ orcemen n, nor El;#l:tun. nor w-m‘."'.'fi that we ot Fido! Fido! .mn; the Ceiumbus Oitio Ciate Journal | . Cbvicuzly that pup which lost its life by falling {rom /@ dirigible wasn' & eky you to the Greta Garbo Ple dance next; § | the hormn. If Myrtle were in. she would P 0. and it she didn't | ! ! made to conceal the smaller arm; in- his| member of the research staff People seem to take the | only Al as any individual is entitled to indulge, 'Ws how well the Jaw would | fi By the Booklover ition in the Western desert country is Harry Behn, whose volume of poems “Siesta” bears the 1931 date. Was born in McCabe, Ariz., in 1898. After his high school course he spent a year in rambling about the Western parks and while in Glacier was made chief of the Blackfeet, with a full Indian ceremony, not just “tour- ist stuff.” His name as chieftain is Bi The couple sat up together all night, , it their mutusll he first In 1923-24 he had the American-Scandi- navian traveling fellowship for study f the drama and made his head- Quarters in Stoekholm. In 1924 he ‘crashed the gu of moviedom” by his fowed by "L Boherse. “Fne Croni” “Hell's ~ Angels,” ; . . The be left the movies for the artists' col- ony in Santa Fe, with the result that | two of his paintings were hung in the | museum thére. Last Winter he spent in Phoenix, writing a play and the Rl soing o foin she Eneiich Separs oin_ the lepart- ment o{n&e University vl' Arizona, * % ok ok “Slesta” is dedicated to “Pamela and Prescott,” Mr. Behn's two small chil- dren. 'The title poem immediately puts us in the right mood for all the others. ‘A wall of t haze Folds the earth” : the To The poem its name from a well known cliff d"‘fif ing near Santa Fe, where “Now ruined ouses sprawl along the dust Where weeds grow level with the vision of the dead.” In “The Return” is voiced all the longing of one who has lived in and loved the Southwest for the heat and color and odor and vegetation and loneliness of the desert. “Again in this lonely land My heart has hungered for, Silence confronts the mind, And in the !Iull 1 flnd' Not less, but more.” The poem ‘Summer” enwraps us in drowsy heat, heat without moisture. Everything ummer’s thrall: No rain will fall.” The phrasing in some of the poems is not only poetic, but is full of connota- tions for any appreciative reader, whether or not he knows the Southwest well. Imaginative pleasure attends such 2s ‘“water drips in delight,” ~off bells, wind-torn,” “drift wisp of mis “this flaw of silence cool silver tissue ‘The poems of ‘.e’o:ulih : im. of b s pressionistic, with besuty and love of place for Lhm*thhfion. * % Charles H, Sherrill describes in full detail his, recent interview with the Kaiser at Doorn in his book "Bismarck and Mussolini.” K Gen. Sherrill was escorted to a room hung with gray-green silk and adorned with old paintings. The Kaiser, dressed in a gray business suit, entered pune- tillously, bade his guest be seated, and ;1‘: gown himself with the light full on lace, i from the desert,” “ in the wind,” “the “the was, English, for his speaks it fluently. I had expected would be a strong British accent, but there was none. Indeed, his might have been learned in some Amer- ican University of our Eastern Btates. As he sat there, speaking rapidly and vivaciously, with those ama.: keen eyes of his, good color, thick iron-gray hair, neatly trimmed beard, mbflu of body and frequent of gesture, was incredible that he should be 71 years old. He looks less than 60. I had never sten him before, not even from s dis- tance, and what I now saw of bedily vigor surprised me. The mental vigor | was, of course, expected. Prom the be- ginning to the end of our two hours and a quarter of conversation there was never a hint of pose. No attempt was deed, after five minutes, one forgot it. He smoked many cigarettes.” * ko k * “Noguchi,” by Gustave Eckstein, is ANSWERS ‘TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. our Washington bureau. State your briefly, write clearly, and. inclosing 2-cent stamp for a personal letter in reply, address The Evening tar Information Bureau, Frederic J, director, hington, D. C. Q. What American city has the most elevators in proportion to its popula- tion?-—N. 8. A. There are more elevators in New the rest of the | Q. What is the Honor Crest Asso- tes, T —D. C. A. It is under the laws of the State of Dela- ware, for the purpose of conducting a pu‘fltull il il -:“ % arly to carry on an adv: service cspecially planned for inde- pendent retail merchants. Q. At what age do men do thetr best work?—H. A. A. There is no golden age, but a L!Wd] of the achievements of 381.of the greatest men of history showed, to Prof. E. L, Thorndike, tha the “masterpiece age” averaged about 475 years, . Why don't soldiers march across brideesr G R ¥ A. The vibration of & body of sol- diers across is great, and sustained such a consider- able time, that it may endanger the struefure; therefore, they are required to break ranks. Q. How does the Department of Agri- culture label trees?>—W. E. U. A. It uses aluminum taj tacked on pleces of board which are screwed fast to the tree. Q. How many men are_there in the Pascist militia in Italy>—W. T. A. Tt numbers about 300,000. Q. What is the largest species of bear?—A. H. A. The great Kodiak bear, native of Kodiak Island, Alaska, is the largest in the world. Q. Do people traveling by airplane from the United States ‘h;ve to have tries and in others they are not. Q. What relation to Mrs. Abraham un$ln was Emelle Todd Helm?—A. A. She was Mrs. Lincoln’s half-sister. She was the widow of Confederate Brig. . Ben Hardin Helm and lived to the age of 93. She died near Lexing- Ky., February 20, 1930. . How many publications are there Quu United Talates deveted 1o wome rade or business’>—I1. O'D. A. There are about 1800 such pub- lications devoted cannot be sued company recently (onned‘ act, as amended, the beneficiary them and' the Vetmmny Q. Did some of the Columblan Ex- position bulldings burn down?—M. E!.x!'. A. Several of the buildings were de- | stroyed by fire on Jlmnryv. 1894, | Q. what can be i Pt e R i o o is known for. overcom- Bureau. A. No method Ing the sea nettle as a nuisance. sachusetts, The artisf il- | liam Read of Boston. b Q. What individual has had mcre written about him than about any one eise in the world's history?—s. L. A. There are said to have been pub- lished over 1500 books about Lineoln. | Lincoln, Christ and Napol | been the subject of p:’nbobr\(', | est number <f books wriften in the field of biography. Q. What makes flowe 2 —W.R P Ts smell sweet? plant produces. These olls are com- plicated compounds of only two ele- ments, carbcn and hydrogen, and sre known as volatile olls, since they es- ©ape readily into the air. Q. How ‘many buil by the Govenment in Columbia? —C. are leased District of What s the total rental? . W. F. A. Tke Division of Public Buildings says that there are 42 buildings in the District_of Columbia that are leased by the Federal Government. On these buildings there is a total of $907,712.11 paid in rent per y Q. What is the order of the - I‘innrl!ollfi!e Barons of Runnymede?— the request is granted. Has » been shot out of a £ = . reached -sur- face. of the lll"?—'-'."!. % Highlights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other M ket for almonds, a commodity for the most part derived from lucers, of & or nut as it is ly considered. At oy R fom o ‘betors the culbivators ¢ which types are most ac- the North American mar- Paulo, the life story of Dr. Hideyo Noguchi, ':h. of the Rockefeller Institute, who died while conducting experiménts with ~ yellow | 512 fever in Africa and was buried at sea off the African coast. The son of a Jap- anese peasant farmer, he was terribly burned as a child and the surgical treatment which partially restored the | 204 use of his hands caused in him the in- | & terest which resulted in his. coming to Ame=ica, where he was assisted by Dr. Eilas Weir Mitchell. His Rockefeller investigations included discoveries in connection with the germ of infantile paralysis, & serum to counteract snake poison and the treatment of trachoma. * ok ok % ‘That Moslem civilization was the birthplace of modern science and that the Moslems were the rebuilders of Bu- ropean civiligation is the novel claim of Robert Briffault in his “Rational Evo- lution.” This stimulating book {is really o brief outlie of history. His thesis is that there has been considerable progress is modern times in material culture and in social justice and that the basis of this ‘ess has been an intellectual bt )y Wwhich the author calls rationalism. The most important contribution .to that rationalism from ancient timeB was Greek culture. The modern period really began with the Middle Ages, and the best we have in intellectual and moral culture is & legacy from Mohammedanism. The rationalism of the Arabs, meorulng to the author, passed into 1led its dogmas, thought and finally to replace them with the methods and cultural outlook of modern science. The present volume is & rewritten version of a book first published in 1919 with the title “The Making of Humlnl%."' ¢ chief obstacle wrseh stands in the alsifical of human tnought by inoculated pre; ( dices. Man's world is the produet of his mind. What he has achieved is the products_of his rational intell ce. * ¢ ¢ Problems, wether economic, or emotional, or moral, can be effectually confronted by no other means than by honesty or rational thought. Humanity must insist on refusing sll substitutes.” * k% % James Fenimore Cooper was first aristoeratic country gentleman Cooperstown, N. Y., and secondarily a writer of romances of Indians and of the sea, l&l;:;muh;n f.enry 'Wul‘:- cott Boynton' ), t'James - mora Cooper.” Mr. goynum disproves the reputed quarrelsomeness of Cooper, or at least reduces it to 80 much an of in this irritating world. Cooper pu “No 'rmmulng" signs on his hnu:]. estate, of which he was executor, and the did not consider this s friendly act, but perhaps they threw papers and remnants of lunch about the grounds. He fought through several 1ibel n'::uh‘nnm nenpspeu.‘ - seems ve good grount for s0. He held the devotion of his and friends and made enemies only when he was obliged to in order to ! defend what he considered his rights. * ok ok ¥ ‘The correspondence of with the national | Civil War period, which has omud since the da; 1 tied it up 3l , has been turned over by the been and is going through ih> papers #s part of his res>arch cn the Douglas bl:g:p he 5 writing. “These letters,” he says, “are we have the test historical find had in America £ yeara® it aff of the fact: apd affording none l,lmnn appropriation to the Department of Agriculture. * % % % Clemenceau Held ‘Women Inferior. Le Matin, Paris: Mille. Marcelle Perrenoud, , assoclated with M. Clemen- | | ceau for a number of years as his pri- vate secretary, gives us a new view of the real man within “The Tiger.” His in mar- | both the El Tempno, Monterey: 1,000 hectares (3,471 acres) has - been feminine ideal was found in the char. | feeity acter of his mother. She ;!vu “:3:- -nd( unassuming, and possessed a e of good common sense. A sophisticated, pleasure-loving woman he had no re-| ct for. Of his mother he said, “Never, in her life did she possess more | than two dresses, but that was no handicap to her in rearing a large| family of children. The infants were cared for all the better because she re- quired so little' time for her own em- bellishment.” M. Clemenceau abhorred bobbed hair on the heads of women, and also ha an antipat to them wearing rings and jewelry. He econsidered this ¢ tom| barbaric and a survival of the epoch when all women were slaves. M. Clem- enceau firmly believed that to elevate | woman was to elevate the race, but he considered modern woman, in many| respects, inferior to the women of a bygone day. [ LR | Portuguese Navigator First to Reagly rgentina. Dilg:o )&cuh, Ium:;e A&ei* limll | rels was st European to reach the shores of what is now the tine Republic. In January, 1512, this Portuguese navigator, seeking th rd passage, his_caravel the Grace de Alma, into the Rio de la Plata. After sailin broad S L e e exp! lon of so ric! and fertile a country. Both Portugal and Spain were en- grossed with commerce to the Orient, | and had no ships to for the de- velopment of a land more remote articles they In tr ! Indians, who thoush md pr issues of February 10 and 12, 11 being a Japanese national In the former we said: * Chinese exaggerated mm“:hbn-’ “Gh- tssue of Pebruary 17: = o a2 Antonio Eveniug News, 2 jed) £ Folitl ¢