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PAg I{THE EVENING STAR “ With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D/ C. PATURDAY.......June 27, 1931 —_—e———eee— THEODORE W. NOYES. ¥he Evening Star Newspaper Company . «Editor e | a3 L ! ate by Carrier Within the City. e Bvening Star .5 . .48¢ per month he Evering and Bifday Biar (when 4 Sundays) . 60c per month The Brening and Suri (when 81 Sundays) . +.68¢ per month Lo y Star . e ection «t the end "f ‘each month. Qiders may nt in by mail or telephone /Ational 5000 Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. 4y and Sunday. iy only . y inday only {ly- and Sunday. aily only nday onl; ‘Member of the Associated Press. S0 the local niews Publ All rights of publication of Epecial dispatches herein are also reserved. —_— The French Reply. From the Potomac to the Seine has now been transferred the next phase of the Hoover plan for suspension of in England. A peddler with gridifons | for sale came to the door of an Eng. lishwoman with literary qualifications in South Africa. She wanted no grid- irons, but relished a chat with the odd old man, Out of that chat came an arrangement for a publication. Pain- fully the adventurer produced his script and painstakingly the writer woman transcribed and edited it, preserving its individual flavor and presenting it as the authentic self-revelation of & man with a wonderfu! career of adventure and peril. It immediately became a “best seller.” So much so that when “Trader Horn" visited the United States a little while afterward he was the re- ciplent of a weekly income of $4,000, and he died rich. He tried the writing of two other books, but they fell flat. “I've never stuck to anything long,” said “Trader Horn” in one of his nu- < | merous interviews during his American tour, something of a rascal elephant. I've been out of the herd. I'm glad to be back in the herd.” In one of the sum- maries of this strange man’s career he has been described as having been dur- ing his lifetime “a trafficker in ivory, apes and peacocks, a collector of goril- las, alive and dead; a prospector for gold and copper, a Scotland Yard de- tective, an archaeologist of some note, a distiller of prickly bean brandy, an admiral of a cannibal river fleet, a with the added weight of the jumper dangling helplessly thirty feet below in the rear, the prospect for either or both coming out alive was none too bright. Finally, by a daring piece of eirmanship a crew in another plane succeeded in passing a knife to the jumper, who then cut the cords of the fouled parachute and descended safely but frightened to earth with his other “umbrella.” The sensible pilots will take heed of the department’s warping. The public may not be amused by prosaic jumps, but if it is not, then they should be discontinued. The public is certainly never amused by fatalities. — e Annapolis boys for a prank entered ia vacant house and fired the furnace, ‘I'm a bit of a rogue elephant, |yt stole nothing. They perhaps had never heard of “Old Hoss” Hoey, who made a great hit on the stage some years ago by stealing a red-hot stove. A Chicago soclety leader was held up and robbed of $5,000 worth of jewelry, which suggests that somebody is carry- ing on during the constructivs absence of Alphonse Capone from the scene of the crime. ———— The next good news to have come blood brother of man-eating savages,|across seas may be that Sir Hubert the first white man to be initiated into | Wilkins has decided that the Nauttlus ‘Egbo, a fighter with Kitchener's ‘cat-| 1§ no proper craft iny which to go war debt payments. France yesterday made her formal reply to the Presi- dent’s proposal. Early this morning the Paris government's position, 85|sweeper, a friend of Ulysses S. Grant therein set forth, was sustained in the land Jack Rhodes, savior of Nina T. French Chamber by a majority that|white joss-house goddess, the last of the leaves no doubt of Parlisment’s sup-!saga tellers, a gridiron peddler and port of the Laval cabinet's attitude. In !qealer in literary novelties, a lecturer, Paris, as in Washington, the assent ©of ! g talker, a traveler and a birthday cake the national legislature is Tequisite be- | patar fore the administration can enter inta| twhat a career! Yet there have been international agreements involving the!many such soldiers of fortune, not with people’s money. just the same record, but with the same On the face of things, France, in|just for the wilderness and the land of Secretary Stimson's words, “shows &|savagery and strange secrets. Alfred gratifying cordiality to the President's|aloysius Smith differed from most of proposal.” But her reply also contains | pys predecessors in adventure in that “suggestions which do not accomplish|pe died in refulgence of final accom- tle thieves’ a painter of animal pic- tures, a fillbuster leader and private sleuth, ‘Depth Charge No. 3' on & mine l market. the full measure of relief to debtor na- tions corresponding to the President's plan.” These suggestions, Col. Stim- son points out, “must therefore be the subject of further discussion, with a! view to modification that will bring the full measure of accord.” Note well the words “must” and “modification.” In them lies the kernel of the American reaction to France'’s attitude. It “must” be thoroughly reconsidered and sub- Jected to “modification” if there is to be applied to the problem of economic recovery the remedy which the Presi- dent of the United States has pre- scribed. There is no actual hint of an ultimatum in Secretary Stimson's state- ment. But it is capable of such a con- struction. 8 Happily, negotiations designed to harmonize the French viewpoint with that of President Hoover have instant- ly set in. Secretary Mellon arrived in Paris simultaneous with the French reply. He is already in contact with Premier Laval and Foreign Minister Briand. Faith in the ultimate achieve- ment of an understanding is justified alike by Mr. Mellon's skill in such an emergency and by Prance's expressed eagerness to fall in line with Mr. Hoo- ver's program in so far as it is com- patible with French interests. France’s position is that Germany ghould not be permitted to cease pay- ing the “non-postponable” reparation annuities due from her, amounting to some forty-eight per cent of the $425,- 000,000 for which she is immediately obligated. The French hold it would be Jeopardizing the “intangibility” of the Young plan if Germany, even during the projected year of grace, were to stop paying both the conditional and un- conditional annuities. Paris therefore proposes that France shall place at the disposal of the Bank of International Settlements a sum equal to her share . of the non-postponable annuity for one year. All the sums thus turned over— for the French suggest that Germany's other creditors shall' likewise utilize the non-postponable amounts Berlin pays them—“could be utilized at once for improving credit in Germany, as well as in countries of Central Europe, and especially those in which the sus- pension of the execution of the Young plan during one year might create fnancial or economic disturbance.” In other words, France savs: “Let Germany pay everybody everything she unconditionally owes during the next year. We will then pay it into the In- ternational Bank, where it will be avail- able to help cure economic distress not only in Germany, but in other European countries that are just as badly off as she is” The French argue -that it is & European economic crisis and not purely German distress that clamors for the amelioration President Hoover projects. France has alllances, or semi-alliances, with Poland, Rumania, Jugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. Hence, transparently, her zeal to see that re- lief is spread over all of “Ceniral Europe” and not coafined to Germany. The French thus seek to give the American plan a vitally different aspect from the one which electrified the world when disclosed at Washington a week ago. Undoubtedly, a diplomatic dilemma is now presented. There will have to be giving way somewhere. The Ameri- can proposal and the French counter- proposition are irreconcilable in im- portant respect . That does not mean that they are hopelessly incompatible. Statesmanship has a fresh nut to crack. With good will on all sides springing from the realization that the hour and the crisis call for definitive action, Prance end America should find the way. % ——rate Radio pictures from overseas are not yet much as art, but they are certainly marvels of modern mechanical advance. - The Man Known as Trader Horn. ‘The death at Whitstable, England, of Alfred Aloysius' Smith, announced on Friday from London, was of absolutely no interest to the world. For the man of that name was unknown and unim- portant. When the news bulletin went on to say that Alfred Aloysius Smith | was “Trader Horn,” the world sat.up and took notice, for this was a man of romance and adventure and notoriety, 4f not of fame, made so by the publica- tion of a volume of reminiscences and adventures four years ago. The very manner of the writing of that.yglume Was like the career that has just plishment and reward and wealth. But for the chance ‘of the gridiron venture probably have passed out unknown, for- gotten and a failure. ——— e Einstein's Plea for Mooney. Albert Einstein, world-renowned Ger- man philosopher and scientist, was not well advised when he wrote a letter to the Governor of California appealing for an absolute pardon for Mooney and Billings, now in prison as perpetrators of the San Francisco preparedness pa- rade bombing in 1916. His studies of relativity have given him great fame. His recent visit to the United States won for him the friendship of many Americans. On questions of science in his field he speaks with authority. But i he is not qualified in any manner to | pass judgment upon the merits of the | Mooney - Billings case, which has for fifteen years vexed the State of Cali- fornia, and ihdeed the American peo- ple. He could at best express, as he did in his letter to the Governor, merely an opinion as to righteousness of their conviction. That opinion must have been formed upon the basis and under the influence of only a casual discus- sion of the matter in the course of his visit to the Golden State. It was hardly in good taste for him to express it, although undoubtedly his motive was kindly. The Mooney case has sharply. divided the people of this country. Those who believe these men to have been the vic- tims of persecution are unremitting in their efforts to obtain their release, which can be effected only by execuiive clemency. That action would not of itself necessarily establish their inno- cence. ‘Their conviction would still stand on the records of the pronounce- ment of law, but the grant of a pardon would nevertheless be accepted by their champions as vindication and acquittal. Perhaps Prof. Einstein did not take into consideration—possibly he does not know—the history of the case in full. Indeed it is hardly to be believed that he could have learned it in the course of his very brief visit during which he was feted and honored socially and scientifically. His concern for these men must be one of sentiment, and if he is to become sentimental over them there are many others in this country who are equally deserving of voyaging under the ice toward the North Pole, ———————— Vice President Curtis’ discussion of the hotel rates in Washington with a Kansas publisher will probably have no effect upon the local entertainment ————— Perhaps Trader Horn did not have all the adventures described in his book, but at least it cotld be sald that he did not lead a sedentary and passive life. e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Quantum Sufficit. 'Most every phase of human woe which failed, but which led to & w"“yi That calls Hope's beauteous bluff new line of activity, he, too. would| ;g que ¢4 folks who do not know When they have had enough. The flowing bowl has ceased to flow. Men fool with bootleg stuff, Becayge of folks who do not know ‘When they have had enough. The monarch’s power has ceased to grow; Earth teems with problems tough, ‘Because of folks who do not know ‘When they have had enough. This is my pray’r while bending low, ‘Where storms are strangely rough; Oh, tzach me only this: To know ‘When I have had enough! The Momentous Silence. “You don't talk as much in Washing- ton as you do in your home town.” “No,” replied Senator Sorghum. “When & man succeeds in getting sent to Washington it is sometimes *us hest play to convey the impression that he is engaged in intense and silent thoughts.” Jud Tunkins says a real patriot is a man who devotes as much thought to the welfare of his country as he does to the base ball pennant race. Modern Diplomacy. ‘Though warm phrases most polite Mark both diplomacy and fight, ‘The real proposition is The fact that business is biz. Noah's Oversight. “Don’t forget to feed and water the canary birds,” sald Mrs. Meekton as she started for the train. “I won’t, Henrietta,” replied her hus- band; “though I can't help wishing sometimes that Noah, when planning to perpetuate animal life, had decided to leave canary birds out of the ark.” A Sporting Streak. “Hiram,” sald Mrs. Corntossel, “our boy Josh seems determined to live with- out workin".” “Humor him along” replied Farmer Corntossel, “and let's take a chance. That kind of a feller always turns out to be either terribly poor or wonderfully rich.” Personal Viewpoint. This world around is swiftly spun. ‘The fact occasions no dismay. his sympathy. He might with as much [, b thinks his part the only one propriety declare his belief in the in- nocence of Sacco and Vanzetti, though they are beyond the reach of pardon. His action does credit to his heart if not to his judgment. o ‘The presence of Secretary Mellon in Paris has unquestionably had a reas- suring effect upon an anxious public respecting the fate of thé debt mora- torium proposal. Somehow or other the American people have a feeling that “Uncle Andy” is a most efficient finan- clal fixer. ? - Parachute Jumping. Because of several fatalities and nar- rcw escapes in exhibition parachute jumping, the Department of Commerce has issued a wamning to all pilots re- garding the strict adherence to the rules of the air for these exhibitions. In all cases, according to the depart- ment's ruling, pilots are fo be held responsible with respect to safety pre- cautions by jumpers. If the parachute jumper is unskilled or untrained, the pilot must refuse to tzke him aloft. If the pilot has assured hims'f to the best of his ability that the jumper is competent, he must see to it that he is equipped with two parachutes. And, finally, all pilots should bear in mind that parachute exhibitions come within the category of acrcbatic flying, which 'is prohibited over a congested area of any, city, over n established civil air- way and over an ectablished eirport, and that the jump must be mad: and the parachute must open at a height above one thousand five hundred feet. The department is toking a wise step in calling renewed attention to its regulations. The public has become so accustpmed to airplanes and parachute Jumping that it ®akes novel and dan- gerous stunts to create a thrill, and consequently the regulations are often violated. The danger to both pilot and jumper, if the jumper is unskilled, was never more clearly shown than in @ recent case in the West where the parachutist pulled his rip cord too soon, That's right side up both night and day. “Tellin' de plain truth,” said Uncle | oa Eben, “ain’t always as easy as it seems, owin’ to de natural tendency of & human to get his personal ‘pinions mixed up with the simple facts.” ————————— One-Way Vacation. From the Akron Beacon-Journal. Outing: A day spent watching a spare tire bob up and down in front of Sort of Perpetual- Motion. From the Hamilton (Ontario) Spectator. Henry Fotd will grow melons to get alcohol to make paint for his cars, which will yield nmore melons. Mayors Get Experience. From the Haverhill Evening Gazette. Those American mayors in France, having investigated Paris sewers, may noK be expected to tackle comparative political methods. How to Discover Muscles. Prom the Toledo Blade. ‘You might like to know without riding a_horse that the human body contains about 500 muscles. i —_—e—————— * Small Town Rumor Peril. From the Duluth Herald. One of the constant dangers of living in a small town is that of being run down by a hit-skip rumor. . — et “More Votes,” Party Slogan. From the Springfield (Mass) Union. A Democratic orator declares that what the party needs is a good slogan. ‘We suggest “More Votes.’ P Ex-Queen Wants More Pay. From the San Antonio Evening News. ‘The exiled Queen of Moheli that France increase her pension. Fail- ing. she of Swat. Rule Works Other Way. Prom the Birmingham News. Clothes make the man. there's ., How shall books best be arranged in "hgv et has his e su every one own St ArTY ement ich ma; as Books may be placed in the home L s, et T . We E from the first, eeps his by cl g & child, to one which he purchased as Le &mhuod last, week. re is another Washingtonian who believes that the best shelf arrange- ment is by hobbies, so that a thorough invesf of his books shows his t from the earliest times. ‘These are pleasantries, ever; most of us will stick to one of the three more common methods, either by au- thors, by subjects, or by nothing much at all, ledy-piggledy. ‘There is in the average home no need for library sciences, as interesting as that study fs, as nece: a3 it is gokke.epl.n‘ track of a large ection of ‘The booklover with a modest fortune in books knows every volume he pos- sesses intlmately, and is able to lay his hands on the one he wants without un- due delay, in case of need, becausc he uses system. Even a few thousand books will cre- ate a problem, for no matter how much one loves his books, unless he has some simple system of arrangement, he will find himself perplexed in finding the one he wants at the moment he wants it. ‘There can be little doubt that most men and women who love books be- yond the liking of the great bulk of the {mpuuu for them are impatient crea- ures. Why this is so we do not know, un- less the booklover realizes just a little bit better than others the value of beauty and light, and necessarily has & quicker resentment of all those disturb- ing*factors in life, especially modern life, which make for noise and con- fusion and poorer living in general, AL Arrangement by authors is a favorite method in the home 1il d rightly so, because it enables to when he wants it. There is no hunting around for that copy of “Lord Jim,” the greatest preachment on duty ever penned, be- cause it is right there dn its place with the remainder ‘of Conrad's stories. Conrad! Is not that the poorest name for an author any man ever had? And it was all the more unfortunate, since he se- lected it himself. Some way a reader feels whether or not an author’s name harmonizes with what he writes. Who, for instance, would ask that Jack London be other- wise? But Conrad smacks more of banking or real estate. It is not a writer's name, and even the great Pole who wrote such fine English storigs could not_make it so. There 1t is, however, 30-some times | repeated on the covers of as many vol- umes bearing the precious freight of his abllity. And the owner, when he wauts any | of Conrad, knows where to turn _Simi- larly, he may find his Poe, his Steven- son, Dickens, his Scott, his De Maupassant, his Dumas, his O. Henry, his Zola, his Hemin, y, his Lewis. ‘The two moderns have not been col- lected, as yet, but the knowing friend of his books keeps their works together in one section of his case. If he wants to convince somebody that the opening chapter of “Babbitt” is great prose he does not have to run all over the house to find it. man place his hand on the book he wants |his Sinclair THE LIBRARY. TABLE X By the Booklover The . difficult and valuable part: of the pioneer woman in all ages has Test | COme to be recognized. Hers ‘has for the it % Sy ot especially in a d a prized book one of the petty which there are Having one's toes stepped on by a fat in the bus— stung a bee— Saying exactly the wrong thing at the wrong time— Attempting to light a cigarette with- out fire in any f Having the bottom drop out of a bag of oysters in a public conveyance— Or a gample of one's prize grapefruit roll down an aisle at a symphopy con- cert— mmm hnre some g the petty annoy- appening every one day. (If E:y one doubts the last two Ia¢ st happened to the writer once upon & time; the next to- the last, we saw sboard a bus.) the list also must go the inability te find a given book ima given place at a given time. Books should have their fll.;l?-. and ‘kepz there as much as pos- * K k% Arrangement by subjects offers many possibilities, and may be combined with all other methods. If one is interested in gardening, for instance, and picks up a good book on the subject now and then, in time he will find himsélf in possession of a fair little shelf of such books. The time comes when he purchases several new shrubs for his garden, and mind immediately turns to an article about the subject which he read in a certain book several years ago. If his gardening books are scattered all over the house he may or may not be able to find the book he wants. If all such works are arranged on one shelf, he knows that by going there everything he has on the subject is at | his command. Often there will arise a conflict be- tween arrangement by authors and sub- Jects, since etimes a writer does a garden book ®¥ne year, a philosophical work the next and a novel the next. ‘Whether it is best, then, to divide this author, as it were, and keep his various works in different parts of the library, or to keep him intact, in a scramble as he wrote, is a matter for each booklover to decide for himself. Ordinarily, authors are not 50 versa- tile. Novelists mostly write novels, playwrights plays, horticultural writers rden books. If upon occasion one ids it necessary to put one volume of an author in another section of his library, he perhaps will have no diffi- 5'&':" .at all in remembering that he 80, A careful lover of books will arrange his own cases, even to the extent of taking out the books every now and then and dusting the shelves; and he will do this, not alone for the sake of cleanliness and hygiene, but even more because it acquaints him afresh with ths physical location of his small treas- ures, and makes sure that he will find what h> wants when he wants i Condemnation Aimed at Reckless Airmen General approval is given to the complaint, uttered by President Hoover, of the low flying by airplanes at the Harding Memorial dedication. The spirit behind such piloting is a subject of condemnation in editorial discussion on the basis that these acts not only constitute a public, nuisance. their motors drowning out the voices of 'speakers, but are a distinct menace to the lives of persons attending. such gatherings, “Planes overhcad have added much to the pageantry of outdoor ceremonies and celebrations,” says the Philadel- phia Evening Bulletin, “but they are no longer a novelty, and fiyers will readily agree to rules that will better protect assemblies and prevent annoyance at outdoor ceremonies.” While the Bulle- tin believes that “the air traffic rules governing flying over cities and crowds of persons were made to guard citizens against the airplane itself and did not consider the elenfent of annoyance in llers and motors, nor dinger from objects that might be dropped,” that paper finds logical ob- Jection to the annoyance. viewing instances in its own city of similar violations of established | PTOBT: rules, the Charleston (W. Va.) Daily Mail states that “there has been great improvement and the offense has mpot recently been so apparent as formerly.” It adds that “the danger comes When there are celebrations, when theré is a showing off and when stunts are the order of the day and when there is the usual laxity that follows having a good time.” The 8t. Paul Ploneer Press holds that, in the case of the Harding dedication, the President “calls atten- tion to an aviation stunt that is in the tegory of public nuisances,” recalling that “many a speaker, has struggled through an address punctuated by the frequent interruptions of a zooming airplane.” “All parts of the country have wit- nessed similar actions - at various times,” declares the Pittsburgh Post- Gazette, charging that “the stunts com- plained of are plainly inspired by a mere desire to ‘show off,; similar to that of the small boy who cannot be controlled before visitors.” It sadvises that “the majority of pilots might aid in refor g the comparatively few offenders by treating therh in tha lighto" * ok ok X “President Hoover and former Presi- dent Coolidge were both handicaj in their addresses at the dedication,” avers the Worcester Evening Gazette, adding that Mr. Coolidge “is said to have been ‘very much disturbed and bothered,” ” and- concluding: “Airplanes did it. They flew close over the speakers’ stand. You could hear them over the radio; the din must have heen terrific at Marion; it must have pre- vented many of the spectators from hearing all the speec] law prescribing altitudes at which avia- tors are supposed to keep above any city. But, even with such laws, an aviator can be a nuisance. The drone of air motors is often disturbing to the peace. We do not it automobiles to operate freely with their exhausts barking like machine guns. The muf- flers detract somewhat from the power of an engine, also.. There's no reason Jject to a similar hnnd.!ulp ® “It would be unthinkabl Rockford Morning Star, to drive his car througl ,” argues the for a motorist decency might appeal to the Akhoohd to hear t {to get rid of it is for loyal citizens hes. There is a | ALy, why aviators should not be made, sub- |0 of Country power to set the air cops after them. That Mr. Hoover did just that will please thousands of his less conspicuous fellow citizens who have been annoyed and frightened by similar discourteous and dangerous flying over large out- door gatherings. It seems to have be- come a fad for some persons in air- planes to fly low whenever they see a crowd. The fact it is against both the law and the rules of safe flying does not deter them. One is glad the President was on hand at Marion to initiate a bit of timely law enforcement.” “Authorities everywhere should make an example of the few are both a nuisancé and a menace,” asserts the Indianapolis Star, with the conclusion as to the mos{ recent example: “The public will regret the occurrence, al- though {t may prove a blessing if it re- sults in stricter regulation of these air- plane nuisances. It is seldom that a solemn service in whiclj the President participates is marre by overhead lanes. There are few communities, wever, which have not had similar experiences at gatherings of various kinds. Where crowds are gathered to see rather than to hear, the drone of the plane may not interf:re with the am. The element of danger, how- ever, should not be ignored.” Forecasting “greater protection for the public” as a result of the Presi- dent’s protest, the Dallas Journal, while condemning an “ill-timed intrusion,” is inclined to believe that “it will prove no easy matter wholly to enfurce any law prohibiting low flying and flights over large assemblages in the open,” but feels that “the effort should be made.” The Journal concludes: “There are State laws and city ordinances cov- ering this offense even now, but all citizens can bear witness to the fact that they are often violated. A Federal law with strong teeth in-it will have restraining effects. If a few outstand- ing examples should be made, airmen would give more thought to the public safety and to the proprieties.” P ] More or Less Meaty. Prom the Rochester Times-Union. America expects every man to do his duty eating more meat; there is too much meat, and the only way to buy it and eat it up. Also America wants every one of us to eat less meat. The leral Health Service has lately sent out an admoni- tion to that effect. It seeks thus to | blic health during the hot season. Certain folk in the direction of Kansas City, interested in the course of prices for cattle and hogs, have been warming the telegraphic wires with protests to Secretary of Agri- culture Hyde on account of this warn- mgt should prove possible for Secre- Hyde to issue through some other subdivision of his department an offi- cial injunction to all of us to go in for second belping from the fleshpots. The Federal authorities would then have done their duty both to the consumer and to the producer. Quite true, the meat eaters would find it difficult to carry out both recommendations at once. They might become doubtful of given above, we. would say that the °f 2 the soundness of governmental to the individual on how to attend to own affairs. Nevertheless, since the Government must do all it can, and impartially, to help every one, and since it must never favor one of persons at the ex- fcnn of another—perish the thought! it can logically take no otMer course. It May Go on Forever. From the 'cr;uf Daily m:;n. Headline the year 20 Denies Needs always been the enduring of hardships, usually uncomplainingly; active par- ticipation in the making of & home in the , the sharing of Self " and her. eniarn n when the men fell victims to any of the menaces to life. which besei the pioneer. Her minor troubles have always been the 'neces sity of produc for herself all the utilities and comforts of her home and of getting along without what she could ::tn vmdpmuee‘ The eflha‘m of the ordi- ngr woman have usually been confined her own femily and im- mediate neighbors. of the ploneer nuns has been much broader. Agnes Repplier, in her recent book, “Mere Marie of tre Ursulines,” tells, with all the perfection of style usual to her, the story of Marie Guyard, born at Tours in 1599, who, after hav- ing been married and having brought u to the age of 12, entered the Ursuline Cohvent of Tours and :;on‘x ;l;.:nr:' e neciy exfm years later T colony ‘of Quebec in New Prance. (s ” * K K % -nM:;::c ‘llgu'te I;.! both a mystic and ve. er greatest haj 1ess hout her life she found txr,lpl:nn- ‘bemphtwn and intense consciousness personal relation with God. Her greatest usefulness was as a builder, an educator, the head of a community, the adviser of provincial rulers. * she habitually contemplated the heav- ens she walked the earth with firm and sure steps.” As a poor young widow she had condncted the house- hold affairs and some of the bus‘lgm affairs of her brother-in-law and sister so efficlently that they naturally Te- gretted losing her and so opposed her entering the convent at Tours. Arriv- ing in New France, with two other Ursulines ‘and the wealthy and erratic widow, Mme. De la Peltrie, who was financing the expedition, she found abundant opportunity for her rather remarkable combination of abilities and characteristics. Her hitherto placid life was changed into one of adventure and hardship and the sechided nun became “a ploneer whose name is a familiar and cherished one in the land of her adoption, and in the annals of her order.” When she first saw Quebec, after a thrée-month voyage, it was an outpowf in the wilderness, “a settlement of 250 colonists, dependent for its needs upon France,” in continual danger from the Iroquois. and at the time ravaged by a smallpox epidemic. The nuns were housed in a shack, “com- prising iwo fair rooms, an attic and a little chapel of planks and rough plas- tering,” which one of them christened “The Louvre.” Their first duty was as nurses of smallpox patients, and they were 80 busy that none of them time to catch the disease and ! so escaped. When the epidemic was over Mere Marie began the study of several Indian languages in order to teach the Indian girls, for whom she immediately started a school. For 33 years she carried on her work in Quebec, begging money from France for her convent buildings, begging more when they burned down, teaching the French girls and the Indian girls, writ- ing simple catechisms, sacred histories, cellections of prayers and a primitive dictionary in the Huron, Algonquin and Iroquois tongues, nursing the sick in emergencies, cooking and performing all other household tasks, even when the bitter cold of the Canadian Win-- térs made it impossible to keep the convent warm, training novices, ooth French and Canadian, in order to build up the Ursuline order for the increas- ing work to be done. At the death of Mere Marie de I'Incarnation, in 1672, all Quebec mourned, but “Her work was done, her hurts were healed and home was close at last. She looked so supremely happy lying dead on her narrow couch that the mourners dried their tears and rejoiced. It was no occasion for grief.” * K ok K In “Mere Marie of the Ursulines,” Agnes Repplier gives many an inci- dental picture of the Iroquois, the most ! dangerous enemies of the French at Quebec and of the Algonquins and | Hurons friendly to the French. Bru- tality, bloodthirstiness, haughtiness, craft and scorn were characteristic of | the Iroquois in their dealings with the | Canadian colonists. When inflamed by alcoholic liquor (sold to them by the | colonists), their savagery was unre- st ied and incalculable. Gambling | was a passion with all the Indians and much distressed the sensible Mere Marie, “who had been used all her life | to thrift and wise expenditure. Other | vices were more degrading, but no other was so inherently futile, and no other took so tight a grip upon its | victim. The savage had little to lose, | but that little was his all. * * * A bowl of bark and some black and white pebbles, in lieu of dice, constituted the simple outfit. With its help the young brave risked his tobacco, hi$ orna- ments, his weapons, his wife, his blankets, beavers, moccasins, and whatever else he happened to possess. Reduced to nakedness, he wagered his hair, which, if he lost, was cut off* and burned; and a finger or two which were severed from his hand, though of no earthly use to the winner. It must be said for him that if he was the worst of drinkers, he was a model gambler. He never permitted himself to show the slightest annoyance when he lost, nor any exultation when he won. The jubilant laughter of the successful and highly civilized bridge player would have seemed to him inde- cent and ill-bred.” N ey A “Mellows,” a collection of Negro spirituals, edited several years ago by R. Emmet Kennedy, has been followed by a second volume, ‘“More Mellows.” The word -“mellows” is a Negro cor- ruption of “melodies.” Mr. Kennedy is a musician and a Southerner. He says of the spirituals in the collections: “Regarded in the light of original poetry the words of many of these spirituals cannot justly lay claim to any degree of imaginative force: but most of them possess more than a small infusion of genuine melody of a soulful quality which will undoubtedly preserve them from oblivion. No care- | ful analysis is necessary to show that these creations of the American Negro are far superior to the fragmentary chants of his jungle ancestors. While the same elementary musical form is found underlying nearly all the devo- tional songs” and many of the folk songs produced by the American Negro, it cannot be denied that the develop- ment of his musical proclivities owes ‘much to the civilized environment he bas known sirce the time of his intro- duction into Virginla in 1620.” v g ‘The identity of Henry Handel Rich- ardson no longer a secret. “Living Authors,” the bock of biographies just published, reveals that the Australian novelist’'s nom de plume is really only the thinnest of disguises. Henrietta Richardson—for that is her maiden name—was born in Melbourne, the eld- est_daughter of Lindesay Richardson. advice | an English doctor. When she published e tfl'rm-li.nest of Antarct erature son feared she would be judged too'm,e “Maurice Guest,” in 1908, after her piano studies, Miss Richard. tolerantly if her sex were known. By converting the Henrietta to Henry and adopting Handel for its musical asso- ciation, she created the masculine pseudonym- that completely = decel her early _critics. -"&flu adds that Miss Richardson is the wife of a university professor and has a Summer cottage at Dorset. , She is still apparently unwilling to haye her A e The field of some |0, a Authors”™ ical and mental horrors of - ANSW ERS, TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. What 18 your question? Whatever it may be, unless it be a rmu! for legal, medical or financial ad , 1t will be answered without' cost to you, and you ‘will receive the reply in a personsl lgf- ter. Write your question clearly and briefly, inclose 2-cent stamp for re- turn postage, and address The Evening Star Informaticn Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washington, D. C. Q. How many daughters of veterans o!l ;he War of 1812 are still living?— "A. There are 179 daughters of vet- erans of the War of 1812 still living. \Q. Was there ever a hotel in New oflgm called the Strangers’ Hotel?— A. According to the “Historical Sketch Book and Guide to New Or- leans,” by Coleman, there was in 1839 a Strangers’ Hotel in New Orleans which was presided over & famous caterer known as Marty. is was one of two hotels of any consequence in that city at that time. Q. Are the Civil War fractional cur- rency shinplasters still in circulation and are they receivable at par?—D. J. A. Occasionally a few of these paper mo notes for amounts less than $1 appt in circulation. They are re- cefvable and will be redeemed at par by the Treasury. Q. Why are British soldiers called Tommy Atkins?—A. D. A. The name came from-the small pocket ledgers, distributed at one time, to all British soldiers. . In these man- uals were to be entered the name, age, date cf enlistment, etc. The war office sent with each little book a form for filling in, and the hypothetical name selected was Thomas Atkins. The books were instantly so called, and the name so?‘;-.x transferred from the book to the scldier. Q. Where is the United States Rabbit Experiment Station?—J. H. B. M A. It is located in Fontana, Calif. Q. What former big league pitcher kept a notebook on the kind of ball to pitch to the several players in this| league?—J. W. 8. A. We are informed by an authority on base ball that Crazy Schmidt wes the pitcher who kept a notebook in which he sald he recorded the weakness | of all batters. He was an average left- hand pitcher and very eccentric. Q. What will keep grass from grow- ing on a tennis court?—C. R. 8. A. Calcium chloride salted or dusted on the court will have this effect. Q. What is the meaning of the name Ellen?>—W. A. O'N. A. The name Ellen is derived from the Greek “Hele” meaning “light.” It is connected with the other Christian names Helen, Eileen, Elaine, Eleanor. Qé Why is Fleet strect so famous?— A. This London street runs from Lud- gate Hill to the east end of the Strand. It is named from the Fleet River. In the early chronicles of London many allusions are made to the deeds of vio- lence done in this street. By the time of Elizabeth it had become a favorite spot for shows and processions. It was | noted formerly for its taverns and ccf- fee houses, frequented by many persons of literary fame. It is now the chief center of British journalism. Q. What is the origin of Children’s day?—L. E. A. Before 1850, the Rev. Charles H. Leonard, then pastor of the Church of the Redeemer, Chelsea, Mass., began the custom of observing & Sunday in June as Rose Sunday, or Children’s day. In 1857 the church formally set aside the second Sundsy in June designating the day as “Children’s Sunday.” It is now observed by mearly all churches throughout the werld. Q. Who was Josh Billings?—M. 8. A. This was the pseudonym of Henry Wheeler Sbaw, American humorist, born in Lanesborough, Mass., 1818. He en- tered Hamilton College but. soon went out West, where he worked on farms and steambeats, finally becoming an auctioncer. In 1859 he began writing, and in 18€0 sent to a New York paper “An Essa on the Muel, bl Josh Billings,” which was extensively copied. His most successful work was his “Farmers’ Allminax,” a travesty on the Old Farm- ers’ Almanac. He died in 1885. Q. Why is Georgia called the Empire State of the South?—C. L. W. A. Prcbably the best explanation of the title, Empire State, for Georgia is given in the following par: ph from Jones' “History of Georgia”: “Thus we endeavored * * * to present the history of Georgia from the earliest period to the epoch of her elevation into the dig- nity of an independent commonwealth Henceforth it will be our pleasure and privilege to trace her progress as aug- menting daily in populaticn and mate- rial wealth, developing year by year in resources and capabilities and through the intervention of wise constitutions, s2ge rulers, good government, educa- tional advancement, commercial con- nections and fruitful fields enccuraging the intellect, the enterprise, the inde- pendence * * * and the virtue of her citizens. She has grown mightier with each generation until now the insig- nificant colony planted by Oglethorpe upon Yamecraw Bluff is saluted as the Emrire State of the South.” Q. Please give some facts about the | colony cf Maceo—W. R. S. A. The Portuguese colony of Macao is located on an island of the same name at the southwest mouth of the Canton River off the ccast of Kwangtung Province, China. It has an area of 11 square miles and & population of ap- proximetely 80,000. It is just across a narrow channel from the well known British colony of Hongkeng. Q. Has Russia ever had an internal religious war?—S. G. A. In 1648 the Cossacks rose against the Polish-Ukrainian lords who sought to impose upen them the Roman Cath- olic faith in lieu of their own Greek Catholic religion. The Cossacks fought with the utmcst brutality, overcoming the Poles and forturing their leaders to death. Their Roman Cagholic_priests were hanged before their altars with a butchered hog cn one side and & Jew on the other. When, after more than a year, this religious rebellion was put down, the Cossack leaders were pun- ished with equal brutality. Q. How many parks, large and small, &re there in Washington?— L R. A. There are 668 angles, reservations and parks in Washington. These in- | clude 461 fully improved and 207 un- | improved. Q. How should the word “cantaloupe” | be pronounc:d?—A. P. K. A. Two pronunciations are recognized —can-ta-loop er can-ta-lope—accent on | the first syllable. Q. When a foreign country owes this country money, is it paid by check, draft or cash?—M. A. | . 'A. The Treasury Department says | that the debt of & foreign country is paid in cash in this country through a | fiscal af . The fcreign country builds | a balance here and then the payment is | made by a transfer of funds. Highlights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands HE EVENING POST, Welling- ton.—The brief statement made by the mayor concerning city transport finance does not af- ford sufficient information for detailed comment, but the general out- line given is interesting. The year ended with a profit for the trams of $40,000 and a loss on the busses of 1$65.000. Last year there was a tram profit of $80.000 and a bus loss of $72,- 000. It will be seen, therefore, that the conversion of a profit on the combined services into a loss is due to the set- back in tramway results. The busses have made. headway by $7,500— though, on the present accounting sys- tem, they are still far from paying their way—and the trams have lost ground by $40,000. It would not be fair, there- for, to argue, as has been argued in the past, that it is the bus service that is pulling the transport /finances down this year, any more than it did last ear. 2 We are pleased to see that the mayor made no such submission. Indeed, one remark which was made supported the argument we have submitted—that the present system does not permit a fair comparison of tram and bus economy. “How can the busses be expected to pay (he said) picking up traffic only in the ragged ends of the city which the trams do not serve?” There are trams also which pick up traffic in the ragged ends of the city, but these tram sections are not separated from the whole. The ragged ends are credited with a share of the profit from the in- ner area. In a fair system of account- ing, similar credit should be given, to busses. the (¥ X E German Workers Seek 44-Hour Week. Cologne Gantte.—b;l;che \g‘ucn dot t'tée employes of the pul service depart- megu at Lubeck, as well as the union of passenger vehicle and truck drivers, has adopted a resolution, to be sub- mitted to the managements, whereby the weekly working time shall ‘be re- duced to 44 hours, without any reduc- tion in gfiy. ‘The time previously worked was 50 hours weekly. They also ask the employment of one néw worker for each 11 workers now employed. Con- cerns employing fewer than 11 work- man will be enabled to put on an extra man, whose wages will be paid, until business gets better, at least, out of a created by the unions. The bene- of such a pointed out, will be noticeable immedi- ately in the lessening of expenditures for the unempioyed. * ok kK U. §. and Great Britain Set Example for Rest of World. La Prensa, Buenos Aires—To say that the industrial advance of this country has not.ubem ltt:nl?ed -_vrlh'.g ve fal o cultural progress is a gra acy. or. inement. Their whole ex- _lfim it in perpetuating their ey spend one day en- sustain themsel die. It must cest aside everything in its past life which made or permitted lower standards of behavior. It must have ideals and labor energetically for them, despite the handicaps of base souls and sordid minds in its society. ‘These last are but the manifesta- tions—and sometimes they seem almost t00 powerful to be overcome—of the pernicious influences which have since Adam always striven to drag the race downward rather than lead it up. After all, the spiritual forces of any | nation are its real and cogent energies, and any nation that is blessed with & wealth of sincere conviction and altru- istic motive is a power for good among other nations, and impresses every- where its beneficial influence and ex- ample. Other nations then desire to emulate it, and to e great and prosperous through adherence to_ the same ideals. ‘Thus Great Britain and the United States have left their impress on all the world. They have been the pioneers in freeing humanity from every shackle of traditional custom, cant and su- perstition, and their constant struggles. to make the ideals of conduct the rule rather than the exception in life are bwewlnlfi copled throughout the whole * K k& College Graduates Prefer Life of Sheep Herders. ‘The Japan Advertiser, Tokio.—To settle in Inner Mongolia as traders, | sheep raisers and farmers, 13 grad- uates of the Colonization College of Tokio were planning to leave Japan in May. The hardships to be faced in their new life and the uncertsinties of making a lving, they say, are prefera- ble to the immediate employment pros- pects in their native country. ‘The leader of the group, Seishichi Shimizu, has Iived in Mongolia and other parts of China for 20 years. In- Erenet i, S ere not going to a would be unnecessary pw.work hard. As he remembers the region, it offers nu- merous opportunities to young men who are willing to sacrifice many per- sonal comforts for a time and to de- vote to their labors efforts to h Japanese in Japan are not often aceus- tomed. - No matter what they encoun- ter, he s‘;ld. it wfli’l be bgfifnr’fiun entering the economic strugsg n under the present depression. 37 The Colonization College, from which the members of the party have just been graduated, was established’ to train young Japanese for positions in Japanese possessions, mostly in the capacity of trade representatives of concerns with headquarters on the main island. This year the graduates number 200. Probably only 20 or 30 per cent of these can obtain work for which they are fitted, according to’ Mr. Shimizu. The cthers are now try- ing vainly to find work of any kind. D | Quezon Says the Filipinos Still Want Independence To the Editor of The Star: Your editorial of June 1, 1931, makes the assertion that the Filipino people and their leaders have turned around and no longer desire independence, - As president of the Philippihe Senate and in my capacity as head of the Philippine Independence Mission to the United States, I H‘I’x‘: to say