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THE EVENING STAR | i Sunday Morning Bdon. _ WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY.......July 25, 1831 THEODORE W. NOYES.. .E(H!ol'l The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: ey 42 11th St. and Pennsylvan! . E t. New York Office: 110 Eas: 4and 8t London, 280 jce: Lake Michigan hrohean Ofice: i egent' . England. Rate by Carrier Within the City. iy 15 T month 1ndeY 2% 6oc per montn ar : c per month The Sunday,Star 8 per copy lieation fade at the end 6 each month. | Ofdete may Be seat in by mail oF telephone RAtional S000: Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Balfy ang sunda + $10.00: 1 mo., 85¢ ail Bunday only . 13 1¥yr. $6.00; 1 mo., 50c day "o D135 $400; 1 mol 40c All Other States and Canada. Bally and Sunday...1yr. s1200 4no. 8 ndas” on 136 $5.90; 1mo. 1.00 8¢ umday only 50¢ ‘Member of the Associnted Press. The Associated Press is exclusively to the ‘vse for republication of all n patches crediled to it or not otherwise cred- | ed in this paper and elso the local news, n. All rights of publication of 's herein are tled ais- reserved. Col. Stimson in Berlin. Thirteen years ago this Summer Henry L. Stimson was engaged, as & colenel of Field Artillery in France, in the offensive which the American Army was conducting against what was left of the “Hindenburg line.” Today Mr. Stimson, in the habiliments of Becretary of State of the United States, is arriving at Berlin at the outset of another contact with the Hindenburg ! “line.” It is a line of credit, and not a battle line, which will absorb Col. Stimson's energies as he faces the Ger- mans this time—a line happily far Jess thinner than it was five weeks ago when President Hoover embarked upon his task of strengthening it. On his departure from London last night Secretary Stimson took timely oc- casion to explode the report that his mission in Berlin is to offer, or at least discuss, “further American aid” to Ger- many. His actual mission there, he af- firms, is merely to carry out the visit he projected several months ago, its purpose being to get better acquainted, eve to eye, with German official leaders. It goes without saying that neither guest nor hosts will confine their mus- ings along the Spree and the Havel to ruminations over such departed Teu- tonic glories as Goethe, Schiller and ‘Wagner, -culturally inclined as our scholarly Secretary of State is. There is bound to be consideration of more sordid, contemporaneous things like reparations, debts and loans when Pres- ident von Hindenburg, Chancellor Bruening, Foreign Minister Curtius and Secretary Stimson commune in Berlin and Potsdam. But, whatever the Ger- mans may have it in their mind to say, there is no reason to suspect that it will evoke anything but non-committal sym- pathy on the part of President Hoover’s cabinet chief. The United States’ cards have been laid upon the table. They were trump cards for Germany. They were played for the purpose of giving the Reich a fresh start in the grim game of economic recuperation. Germany Iis relieved of reparation burdens for a year. She is reasonably certain of a prolonged extension of .other obliga- tions now on & short-term basis. She has been placed in the position of a merchant whose creditors agree not to crowd him for the indefinite future, but who cannot expect, until his busi- ness is in conspicuously better shape, to obtain fresh credit. A merchant thus circumstanced progressively im- proves his chance of securing new working capital as he puts his house in order through measures of self-help, promptly instituted and ruthlessly pur- sued. If that is the Hindenburg “line” Becretary Stimson encounters in Ber- lin he can assure the Germans that if they fight it out along that stony path they will hasten the rise of the eco- nomic sun and the dawn of the day that should find the Reich restored to its old position as a first-class credit risk. The issue is squarely up to the Germans themselves. They must meet it manfully before the time for new outside aid will arrive. ————————— In addition to the respect in which his country holds him as a warrior, Hindenburg claims distinction as a good ‘business man. In assisting in the man- sgement of Germany's finances he may find at least the satisfaction which at- taches to a masterful retreat. ———————— Arrangements may not be complete for an everlasting peace. Affairs of the world are regarded as at least suffi- ciently stabilized to permit the U. 8. A. to conduct a national election in 1932 on pretty much the usual lines of dis- cussion. ———— ‘Wall Street is confident of a higher fevel of prices. Quotations as they vary from day to day work gradually up- ward. The stock market has learned by experience to do nothing too sud- denly. R Findings Is Not Keepings. Pive thieves recently in Chicago held up the employes of a bank and got away with over $7,000. In their flight to the motor car waiting for them out- side one of them dropped a package which, it was later discovered from the holding slip, contained $700. Immedi- ately there was a scramble by the pedes- | trians and at the finish only a single ten-dollar bill was retrieved by an agent of the bank. Just what difference there was be- tween the “bandits” who entered the bank and swooped up the contents of fnoney drawers and the crowd outside #ho fell upon the dropped bundle of bills defies definition. The thieves who fnade the raid were at the least cour- @geous enough to dare the protective “Gevices of the bank. While they had advantage of surprise and the pos- ssion of guns, they were assuredly ervy and gamé. The sidewalk scram- lers for the dropped bills were just Beavengers. The question of who is honest, and thow, 15 not easy to answer. Nobody seems to know just what he would do $n an emergency in which his scruples were faced with an opportunity to get : nothing something belonging to o ong else. There is, of i 8 B rele, of honesty, and it | would be a good one for the correction THE EVENING rule. It reads “Thou shalt mot steal” | proprietor of the “pitch.” He organ- ‘The money dropped on the sidewalk by | ized a strike. He walked out, but no- a fleeing thief . was not treasure trove.; body followed him, for unemployment Nor, indeed, is & pocketbook found in|is as keen a sorrow to professional the street with no trace of the owner.| checker players as to artisans or labor- The finder must try to find the owner, | ers or white-collar men. So Karl had must use every effort to do so. In the | his strike to himself. He fitted it out Chicago case there was, of course, no| with a neatly painted sign which said question as to the ownership. Not a|something about broken agreements, person in the swarm that grabbed for|and paraded up and down in front of the dropped bills had any doubt on|the “pitch” in an effort to persuade that score. And probably every one|the public not to patronize the game. who got a bill scurried off with it |Somehow or other his silent plea failled quickly, to avold detection and loss of | of effect. Karl was permitted to loiter the money. He was, in short, a thief|around, unmolested, until he chanced himself. to lean up against the front of a shop, It would be a wholesome happening|the proprietor of which, fearing the if some of these sidewalk scourers were | effect of such a picketing upon his to be identified and prosecuted. Of | business, complained to the police and course the big thieves got away. But|Karl was driven off and has vanished, the small {ry are just as guilty of theft, perhaps gone to the port of missing and should be punished. The example|men, sign and all. This is narrated for the sake of his- of the trait of taking things that belong | tory, the history of the game that be- elsewhere. gan back in the days when man scratched rude lines upon the sand and made squares and lald down and picked up bits of stone and small bones and thus entertained themselves and ac- quircd possessions for which they had not labored. Fingerprint Records. Is a fingerprint record a confidential affair, only to be shared between the person whose prints have been taken and that person's employer? When one submits his fingerprints, does he sub- = mit them for private investigation or [ A conference will be held in Belglum make them a matter of public record | [°X¢ Summer to prevent the destruc- for the enlightenment, if need there | HO0: In, War, of art treasures and the be. of ithe 'world inigeneral? beautles of nature, There is already & The question is suggested by the re- | BTOWINg sentiment against the destruc- cent address of J. Edgar Hoover, the tion of fellow men. If agreements can Department of Justice's efficient chief { be arrived at to protect both life and of its Bureau of Investigation. Mr, |Property the end of war might be re- Hoover has deplored the fact that some | arded as easily in sight. of the Government departments, notably T e the Navy Department, have declined to ‘Taxicab charges in the National Cap- Pros- make available its fingerprint records for survey by the division of identifica- tion, Bureau of Investigation. Through co-operation with this tremendous clearing house of fingerprint records the Post Office Department, for in- stance, has been able to identify, in sev- eral cases, applicants for employment and discover their criminal records. The Army has co-operated, and has been able to prevent the enlistment of men with criminal records. One of the fun- ital are unprecedentedly small. perity is at hand so far as passengers are eoncerned. The old-time “cabby” who was regarded as a probable pirate has been replaced by a philanthropist. It is & state of affairs that will be thor- oughly enjoyed—while it lasts. N Dangers are ahead in the long air Jjourney contemplated by Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh. There is every confidence that it will prove safe and successful, damental parts of the plan of the Civil | though no one will regard it as & quiet Service Commission hereafter to finger- print all applicants for position in the Federal service is the process by which these prints will be submitted to the division of identification for a careful check against the records there. ‘The Navy's position is that young men whom it enlists submit to finger- printing for the use of the Navy alone, and not for the use of the Department of Justice in checking up on their past records. There is enough objec- tion as it is, according to the Navy's ergument, to the fingerprinting process. If it is known that the Navy's records are to become theoretically a part of pleasure trip by a family party. So much importance attaches to a plan by which European relationships can be reliably adjusted that even the selection of & name by which it is to be historically christened becomes a matter of serious concern. e Students of labor conditions point out that there has never been a serious business depression during a presiden- tial year. This is something that states- men who think there are too many elec- STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. “Are women prettier this year?” he asked. “Or is it just their clothes?” “Both!"” smiled the pretty lady. No doubt she was right, but there can be little question that the average ‘woman looks better in the 1931 dresses. What will happen when they all take to Empress Eugenie hats is another matter. There probably isn't one woman in a thousand who could “get away" with one of those small, tilted affairs, ac- cording to that connoisseur, Templeton Jones. Jones should have gone into the designing of clothing, if one cah believe him. His views abouf women's clothes, in particular, are very positive. * x k% “I am walting to see whether the majority of women will take to these old-new hats,” he said. “If they do—and they probably will— you are going to see something. “It has been my favorite recreation lately to visualize every woman I meet with one of these lids perched on the side of her head. “No doubt many a woman has thought I was trying to flirt with her, or ad- mired her immensely, when all the time I was merely attempting to see her in one of Eugenies famous chapeaux. “One must admit that the Empress |S got away with it. Her nose, her clothes, the very age in which she lived, heiped make this possible. * % ok “It must never be forgotten, however, that women are bigger today. “The larger the lady, the larger her hat ought to be, everything else being equal, which it seldom is. “A’ certain regularity of feature is requisite for what might be termed | trick hats, both for women and men. If you don't believe it, consider the question of the panama among women. “About 99 out of hundred women look well in those hats. They cover a multitude of facial“sins. “But when a lady dispenses with their kindly brims, and puts herself slightly under one of the Empress Eugenie type, she is out in the open, for sure. “If a girl has eyes like Greta Garbo, she will look very well in one of those hats. If she has a cute, intriguing look, such a hat may make her even more so. “But we are thinking about all these just pretty women, who have no come- hither eyes, who are just women, as most human beings know them off the stage. * o ok “In America we have become dra- matized without realizing it. The the- atrical point of view is, with many thou- sands of people, the everyday point of view now. “We take our ordinary morals, in- deed, with a grain or two of stage salt. Perhaps it is no wonder that our women- folk tend to accept the stage as the arbiter of dress. “The joke of the matter is that few women have the theatrical complex, as “You ask me what I think about the pajama fad? . “I am in favor of it. Like all such things, it goes in waves, and if a woman wants to wear 'em, the time to do it is when all the women are doing it. ‘“There was & time, for instance, when men could wear overalls in the streets of Washington without exciting any particular comment. That was dur- ing the war, as we remember, for a particular reason. “If you walked down F street today in overalls, you would be gawked at worse than a woman in pajamas. I see 0 good reason why the pajama is not a sensible garment. “They ought to be cool, and that, after all, should be one of the main considerations with Summer garb. It is, of course, with women. “Men, who claim to be the sensible sex, still stuff themselves into suits of clothes in Summer, with tight bands around thelr wrists, legs, necks. * x % % “Men might take % pajamas with some benefit. The average man looks pretty well in his pajamas, especially if of a patterned material. “As & matter of fact, many of our Summer suits are scarcely more than fitted pajamas. “Women are more interested in cloth- ing than men, and have the advantage of having an {nfinitely larger array to select from, both in mal and de- woman would emancipate herself from the trammels of Fashion and design for herself certain standard wearables, like men’s suits and overcoats. “She has not. done so, however, ex- cept to a limited extent. Some men profess to believe that she thereby has fallen down on her one opportunity | through the ages to escape from the tyranny of the mode. “I believe that she has been wise in refusing to give up what has always entertained and pleased her so im- mensely. *x %% “There can be little doubt,” contin- ued Templeton Jones, “that this sea- son's dresses are much more becoming to the average woman than those for any number of years. “When one stops to figure this out, he must come to the opinion that the main feature is the lengthened skirt. Another is the swirl, or flare, or what- ever you call it. “A third is the use of the so-called pastel colors. Few women are gypsies, either in appearance or nature, and most of them look better, and no doubt feel better, in the lighter tints. “Nature has seen to it that there are infinitely more sawed-off, dumpy women in the world than long-legged women who wear clothes to the best advantage. “The best way for the ave: to emulate her more fortunate sister, in this respect, is to lengthen the skirt and raise the waistline. “Fashion nas done this for women during this year of grace, and the re- sult is that most women appear bet- ter-looking. “The skirt st knee-height had its charm, but it did give every woman a gns. “At one time it was belicved that| . tions have neglected to consider. the Department of Justice records, the e objection will be greater. Interviews for print are avoided by But Mr. Hoover's position is that no | Secretary Mellon. The ideal public man innocent person has anything to fear | works hard to render his views worthy from fingerprint records. The only |of popular attention and then demands ones to suffer are those wWith police | tne privilege of keeping them to him- records. An innocent person Cannot | s, justifiably object to having his finger- B e § TN prints placed on record as a safe and The doctrine, “to the victors belong sure precaution against duplicity or 108 | the spoils” has its adherents. There is of identity. a limit, however, to which the demand But the question promises to be Of | for spojls must be held. . The victor is far-reaching importance and not 20|, jonger permitted to decree total de- easily disposed of. Ultimately there yoriction for the vanquished. it might be termed, except as a matter of wishing. T, “For every one of them who wishes “Now that everybody in America has she might go on the stage, and does, |seen legs, it is just as well that the there will be a thousand who might |longer skirt should come back. wish the same thi but cannot, be- “There should be nothlnt‘ fixed about | cause they do not the requisite | fashions, and there surely is not, as far bility and mannerisms and appear- |as any man can see. ance. “That is why the Empress Eugenie “Yet most of these will be acceptable | hats will have their fling, too. ey in the eyes of the world at large, so | may look better on more women than I long as they do not insist on dressing |anticipate, after all. You never can tell like stage stars. about women.’ Recall of Seattle’s Mayor A;:n of peasantish look which ill became may be some delicate points involved. If fingerprints are voluntarily given and made a part of the confidential personnel records of the Government, could they ever be used again in cases that do not involve the Federal Gov- ernment? Will the Civil Service Com- mission find it necessary, in taking fingerprint records of applicants, to obtain, at the same time, a waiver from — e By dragging a sensational sea ser- pent out of Lake Erie, Ohio may have hoped to distract attention for awhile from her ordinary exhibits of wild life in the political jungle on shore. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. the subject through which he sur- renders his right to his own prints? 0Md Acquaintances. Regardless of these points, the fact|y wonder if the robin sings up in the remains that there should be uni- apple tree; formity between the Government de- |y yonder if his song’s the same as partments. To have one department what it used to be; raising a question of ethics and an-| sng i far down the dusty road upon a other turning its fingerprint records Summer day, over to the Department of Justice With- |y erers anybody wishing when he sees out question, is ridiculous on its face. % load ot Hiay. The practice should include all Gov- erment personnel or none. I wo.nfler i t:lep;,l:luw bends above the R As & voluminous, though not always [ The J’my 1:0 dldhon: day when T forgot reciated, author Trotsky is by habit i i) ::seuely eritical, Even Russia, which | And if the honeysuckle sends abroad has undertaken some of the changes he [ its perfume sweet. dvocated when he was associated with | Where berry briars lurk to wound some Lenin, is never likely to work out a| DOV With ahoeless feet. social system of which he will entirely | The men I know are good and true; Approve. the men that men should be; ey b e—— And yet there's something lacking in Men who invest fortunes abroad as- their worth, it seems to me. sume that the advice against entan-|For they could never trudge or Tomp gling alliances applied to politics and or climb the whole day through not to finance. And fill the world with joyous shouts r—ee—s————— like friends whom once I knew. Versatility is valuable to a dictator. " e bility. In addition to being a man of iron will, ..D“A. h‘:e a“m: mtm y“ _— Mussolini uses the methods of the sil- and responsibility?” g “I should say he does. He is the T ? man who weighs out the steak in the A Chlecker St:lk‘e;m i meat store.” It would surely seem —_— of draughts, or checkers, as the game His Family Tree. is known in this country, has been quite “That mn_ll-n talks a great deal of his definitely written, even though the ori- ru?lly :rn, sald the heiress. . gin of the pastime is said to have been| “Yes.” answered Miss Cayenne ‘He obscure and that the record of its de- |impressed me from the first as a man velopment does not run baek: further| Who was ol thc_’lookout for a good than the art of printing. For cen- |market for 3 turfes the game has been static, with s only a few modern variations lke the| .. A m‘fm« developments 'in card games to please 1 imu o » .ne"; the present-day taste for complexity and T'm also glad "’ un“'";m'm gaming. But there have been recent te as big as » happenings in the game, nevertheless, . b s The Last Word. worthy of note. For instance, there has been & professional checker player| «poes your wife insist on having the strike. Can the past centuries match |1ast word?” said the man who asks that for novelty and surprise? impertinent questions. Down at Coney Island checkers is| “Certainly not,” answered Mr. Meek- played professionally during the hot|ton, “She doesn’t have to insist.” weather season. A concesslonaire has a strip of beach front and under tents| he sets up stands at which the public may play checkers, or chess if taste prefers. He hires professionals in both games and invites the non-profes- slonal public to pit its skill against the professional. If the challenger wins, the game costs him nothing. If he loses, he pays a dime, of which the “pro” gets & molety. These business players take on all comers, and usually beat them. They work, in effect, on & commission. If they lose, they get nothing. Thus skill at the anclent game 1s essential to earning the modest livell- hood that the enterprise affords these melancholy masters. One of the professional checker players in the combination was, until recently, an otherwise unidentified per- son known as Karl. He was more than ' “ain’ er bit mo' 'zasperatin’ dan de ordinarily solemn and silesit.” Recently man det prides hisse't purty he came 10 & disagreement With the ter look ab® .. .....u e wmis Resentful. “It is too bad that Bliggins wastes “ don't mind his wasting his own time,” answered the severe man. “But he has no right to waste my time read- ing it aloud to me. ‘The bather fair with digitated hose Cried out, As with a flout He changed his route, “Great Scott; I ne'er before saw feet like those.” “De woman dat Jumps in an’ tries ter boss de human race,” said Uncle Eben, Shows City Power Contest Recall of Mayor Edwards of Seattle by a large majority, after he had been clected and re-elected by flattering votes, is interpreted with radically dif- fering opinions by the press. The mayor's removal of the chief figure in the municipally-owned electric plant of the city is held nominally to have been the cause of his removal. Other interpretations of the vote point to| the conclusion that the battle was one of political organizations. “The outstanding cause of the ac-| tion,” according to_ the Oakland Tri- bune, “is said to have been the re- moval from office of & man who had served efficiently as head of the city's light department. A recall election is expensive and usually does a munici- | pality little good. Seattle, for & num- ber of years, has endured patiently acts of political patronage. Its protests were not sufficient to prevent the re- moval of the president of the Uni- versity of Washington, but when a similar instance appeared within the narrower limits of the municipality, it acted.” Indorsing the results of the recall vote, the Portland Oregon Journal says of the defeat of a mayor who was originally elected by the biggest ma- jority ever given a mayor in that city and was re-elected last year with a majority almost as large as bis original remarkable vote: “There is no way to misinterpret or misunderstand the Seat- tle vote. The group that has all along fought the municipal system is very much in the minority. A nearly 2-to-1 vote against a mayor of great pop- ularity, who is thrown out of office on the issue of his hostility to city power and llxh:h is an nver:::e;l‘mma fiac‘l‘alon inst the group wi ave al ong P the municipal system. It is e people’s own denial of the storles that have been circulated against the municipal system. It repudiates the statements of those Seattleites who have spread tales abroad of bank- ruptcy of the city, the loss of its credit and the implied threat of its financial It is, of course, true that Seattle has bullt an expensive plant. But it has bullt for the future. Its outstanding bonds will be paid in part by the consumers in the future.” As to the dismissal of J. D. Ross, superintendent of the power and light department of the city government, by the mayor, the Eureka Humboldt Times remartks: “Ross is the man un- der whose direction and supervision the light and power plants of the city have grown up, and the jealousy of the people for their municipal plants, and their almost fanatical opposit! to the Boston company which has been supplying them with light and power more or less for several years has de- ion |Who might have picked veloped out of that company’s attitude for & quarter of a century toward the: city government.” “Very likely,” according to the Lynchburg News, “there is no need for many cities now supplied from private sources to establish their own plants, but it will be & sorry day for all citles when all municipal plants 'gn ‘They lendid gauge with which efficiency of privately .” The News also states on the subject of city ownership: “A city-owned ~electric plant 1s just as practical as & city-owned water system. Either will be a poor investment for any city if it does not take the trouble to keep inefficient or crooked men out of public offite; but neither need be s investment if the consum! trouble to guard agains competency and graft in office.” ““:’r:r Edwards,” uw by the Hartford Times, ‘‘seems ive done a m} &m«r Ross, for 25 years head of the city-owned light Intter thereul There is something inviting about Gov- ernment machinery which permits the electorate to register its will promptly and effectively against unpopular offi- cials, but the same devices are capable of easy abuse In catering to sudden and perhaps ill-founded opposition against city officials.” “Charges of the use of slush funds against the defeated mayor” are recognized by the San Jose Mercury Herald, with the fear that Seattle, “if it continues its present course, will soon be politically in a class with Chicago.” ‘The Portland Oregonian holds that “Seattle needs to turn from the coun- sels of men who experiment with theorles on cities which men of a very different ‘type have builded.” “Outside newspaper: remarks the Seattle Dally Times, ave had no; difficulty in finding out that the tax situation in Seattle and the condition of municipal finances leave much to be Seattle has been plentifully ‘panned’ for running into debt beyond its needs and for extravagant ventures in utility ownership and operation. Some of the outside newspapers said Seattle was bankrupt; others sald that it Seattle were not already bankrupt it was surely on the way. Even those that spoke of Seattle in the kindliest wa¥, spoke with words of warning.” Quoting the Oregonian as advising the need of new leaders for the city, the Dally Times concludes: “The Ore- gonian, course, was not thinking merely of new faces around the city h: or a shift in the municipal pay roll per- sonnel. The Oregonian, it is easily seen, was thinking of Seattle's present need of civic leaders of the t; of the men who built this city, that is something that Seattle would do well to think about.” Hoover and Mellon Air Talk “‘Scrambled” From the San Francisco Chronicle, :When the average American read that President Hoover in Washington and Secretary Mellon in Paris carried on radio-telephone conversations about the moratorium negotiations, he was likely to think that this was pouring highly confidential official matter into the ear of the wide, wide world. Some correspondents took occasion to com- ment on the disadvantage of the radio- phone, in that codes could not be used for extended conversations. Other cor- Tespondents that the Presi- dent and Mr., Mellon had resorted to American slang to mystify Europeans the conversa- tion off the air. Any of these surmises is less inter- esting than ‘the facts in the case. an en radio amateur or an ‘would not discussions, he ve understood a word. In the radio|of ha transmission of tel conversation lephone the sounds are “scrambled” by an in- | fie genius device where they leave the wire and take to the air. On the other side of the ocean the sounds are unscram- bled to make intelligible words as they g0 _on the land wire. ‘The scrambled sounds might be picked But even if the set had an unscram- bling attachment it would be useless unless the operator knew the exact combination to fit in zm: the scram- system. pon was engaged by | clel isory engineer ; Mass Warfare. From the Loulsville (:wr.l:r—.mnmiwl Alrplanes to mo-flh- n:"mw Jersey; but they If| End of the Russian JULY 25, 1931. THE LIBRARY TABLE By the Booklover We first meet Mary Hansyke when she is born, in 1841, in a weaver’s cot- tage in Yorkshire, where her mother's iwmy from Li 1 to her home n the Cleveland hills has been unex- pectedly interrupted by the event. Perhaps her birth in a weaver's cot- tage, rather an eccentric performance for the daughter of a man of station and property, was premonitory of the fact that she was to e a captain of industry. The life story of Mary Hansyke, who becomes Mary Roxby and then Mary Hervey, is told by Storm Jameson in her trilogy, “The Lovely Ship”; “The Voyage Home"” and “A Richer Dust.” A widow at 18, with her 2-year-old son at her side and all her possessions in a small red leather box studded with nails, she drives from her husband's decayin manor of Roxby House to the shij g:ll yard of her mother's brother at nesacre and asks for a job. Her uncle, Mark Henry Garton, coarse, ruthless, business shrewd- ness in advance of his times and his competitors, has yet a soft spot in his heart for his gallant niece and takes her into his ice and his home,, “as large as any shipowner's house in Danesacre. . . . It was gray and square and it had seen so many fine ships sall away from under its very walls that something of the dignity and mystery of the sea invested it. The life of the harbor came up to its windows.” r four years of hard work, an apprentice’s wage and pa- tience under the bullying of Mark Henry, Mary suddenly finds herself in position of overwhelming responsi- bility. Mark Henry has died after an operation performed without anesthetic and has “left every penny he owned, the line, the yard and the Tees-side Works to Mary Roxby.” Her career as a shipbuilder, which is destined to last for over half a century and to be a part of the most radical changes in English life, begins with the death of Mark Henry, who has given her her chane ‘The volume, “The Lovely Ship,” takes Mary through many suc- cesses, her marriage with Hugh Hervey, which'is wrecked by the rivairy of her business, her narrow escape from sac- rificing the business to her emotions in a crisis. At the end of this first volume we feel that whatever may happen to Mary Hervey in the future, Garton’s Yard and Works will always be first. She has hardened, her in- tense emotional nature has been brought under control, she is still capable of suffering, but there will be no more yielding. e In “The Voyage Home™" Mary Hervey sells the old Garton sQipyard and moves “from the quiet waters of the little Danesacre Harbour” north to the banks ot the Tees, and the Garton Shipbuild- ing and Marine Engineering Works re+ places Mark Henry's more modest yard and works. In the year 1886 she is 44 years old and one of the successful industrialists of England. “Her insensi- tiveness was astonishing, but so were her energy, her courage and her will. . . . Yet she was not tortuous, and her intellect . . . was limited in all directions but one.” She has built herself a new house, of solid, comfort- able magnificence, not far from the works at Middlesborough and much larger than Mark Henry's substantial house at Danesacre. She and her hus- band are reconciled, after their es- trangement and the turbulent experi- ences of both. but bitter memories and her growing dominance prevent perfect companionship. She has not been as successful with her children as with| her business. The son of her first mar- riage, Richard Roxby, a charming boy and youth, dutiful, interested in Gar- ton’s, which he is some day to inherit, seems all that Mary could desire; then, smarting after being thrown over by a disdainful beauty, he rebels against the tyranny of his mother and Garton's and leaves for a stay of several years in America, and Mary knows she has lost him. Her clder daughter, Clara, loving and well meaning, is clumsy, obtuse and headachy, and Mary despises her. The younger daughter, Sylvia, stubborn and impertinent, never admits her mother's authority, and in her hasty marriage throws it over entirely. Lifelong es- trangement results. After a voyage to America, where Hugh almost dies of yellow fever, Mary and her husband grow closer together, until he becomes | the chief personal interest of her mid- | dle and old age. But as her life ad- vances, her phenomenal business suc- cess is accompanied by personal losses and disappointments. e In the third volume of the trilogy, “A Richer Dust” Mary falls back on| the third generation of her family.| With her own son, Richard, gone, she | chooses her grandson, Nicholas Roxby, Clara's son, as her heir and successor in Garton'’s. The World War comes, Nicholas goes to France and, miracu- lously, fights through the four years physically unharmed. The profits of Garton’s mount higher and higher. Mary, as chairman of the board of di- rectors, becomes more and more arro- gant. She dictates the war policy of the firm to the grumbling directors, who can do nothing but grumble, be- cause she is the majority stockholder. In her family she is equally arrogant. She never speaks to Clara except to snub her. Sylvia and her children are living in comparative poverty, but she refuses to do anything for them or to offer reconciliation, though she desires it. Hugh alone has from her tender- ness. After the war Nicholas disap- points her and refuses to go on in Gar- ton's. He wants to choose his own life. With no one left, she sells her shares, at & huge profit. and makes plans for the disposal of her fortune before her death. Her children and ’nnduhfldrtn will T ceive very little of it. Finally, over 80. alone, still vital, but living more and more in the memories of her childhood and early womanhood, she remains mistress of every situation. She builds & new house and quarrels with the ar- She travels through France, ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC . HASKIN. This is & solely to the per puts af of an extensive or 1al department devoted E:cndlm of queries. This your :.EE" the services tion in Wash- ington to serve you in any capacity that | relates to information. This service is free. Failure to make use of it deprives you of benefits to which you are en- titled. Your obligation is only 2 cents in coin or stamps inclosed with your in- uiry for direct reply. Address The ivenln‘ Star Information Bureau, Frederick J. Haskin, director, Wash- ington, D. C. Q. Why do ski jumpers swing their ;‘rn: when going through the air?—D. cA. A. To keep their balance. Q. How much money is spent for wewoxu on the Fourth of July?—J. . R. A. Figures are not available for the money spent for fireworks. In 1927 in 36 establishments fireworks having the value of $5,885,000 were proguced. There were imported that year $95,000 worth of fireworks and ammunition, and fire- crackers having a value of $835,000. Q. Did Victor McLaglen, the actor, serve in the World War?—L. V. R. A.’ He was in the British army. Q. What star is called the morning star?—B. P. A. ‘This popular and poetic name is given to the planets Jupiter, Mars, Sat- urn, and Venus, when one of them rises shortly before the sun and is a conspic- uous object in the sky before dawn. Q. How many Irishmen speak the Gaelic language?—W. J. R. A. At present about 1 per cent of the population speal cent English only; and about 13 per cent screen | b the Dutch East Indies, on the Island of Sumatra, were formerly known as Old Government Javas, because the coffee was picked from the different planta- tions, cured and, at regular periods, collected by the government and shipped to Amsterdam, where it was soid1 at auction. Q. Is the loganberry a cross or a dis- tinct species?—L. R. A. It is a hybrid, obtained by cross- ing the red raspberry with the Cali- fornia blackberry. Q. How did bookplates originate?— WA A. From the time Hildebrand Brau- denburg of Biberach presented a gift of books to the Carthusian Monks of Bux- heim with a coldred wocd cut of sn angel bearing a shield, as a mark of his ownership of the books, the art of the bookplate has flourished and developed steadily. The earliest bookplates gen- erally bore heraldic devices, with mot- toes and armorial bearings, not count- ing many whimsicalities. The earl: American bookplates were nearly alway.. imported ones. They were either en graved in England or by English artist: ere. Q. Is it trué that there is no such thing as an undertow—C. L A. The Coast and Geodetic Survey says while it has not studied the mat- ter, the existence of the phenomenon known as undertow is generally recog- nized by competent authorities on the subject of waves. : Q. What color was_the symbol of Chinese_royaity?—S. M. A. Yellow was the symbol of royalty and also of high office under royalty Gaelic only; 86 per| The gift of a “yellow jacket” as in- signia showed high regard of the im- Doth languages. Sinc> the_establish- | perial court. ment of the Irish Free State, Irish is be- ing taught in schools, with the idea of Q. When was the first peace soclety the eventual restoration of Irish as the formed’—A. P. S vernacular of the country. | A The first peace society of the world was founded by David Low Q. How did a certain style of hat| Dodge of the United States, 1815, The happen to be called a derby?—T. R. C. | Massachusetts Peace Society was found- A. This stiff felt hat, with a dome- ed the same vear and the American shaped crown and s rim, was first Peace Society by William Ladd i worn at the Earl of Derby's race track. e R Q. Where is the fence in Georgetown of barrels of old muskets?—W. B. an American soldier and a French sol-| A. It is at the northwest corner of dier—E. G. H. Twenty-eighth and P streets. The A. The cost of maintaining one sol- | musket barrels are topped with cast- dier per year in the United States Army | iron lance heads. After the War of is $724.14; in the Prench army, 3,700 1812, realizing that Georgetown had francs, or about $730. rendered special services, the Govern- S | ment, too poor to make any expendi- Q Why are some flat irons called | ture, invited the citizens of Georgetown sad frons?—E. 5. | to help themselves from the scrap heap A. The word “sad” used in connec- | of fron and steel in the navy yard tion with iron means heavy or weighty.| This accounts for the fence and for ¥ = | the presence of the United States coat paty 0%, large is the new British em- | of arms on the iron work of many old ssy?—C. E. B. | Georgetown buldings. A. Located on a four-acre tract, it is | s a gigantic, rambling structure of Queen | Q. What is or was the Salic law?— Anne and Georgian design. The con- [T, G. B. it ception of Sir Edwin Lutyens, it has| A A code of laws relating to crimes, been carried out in fisher brick—a dull, | civil injuries and inheritance of estates parti-colored brick—and limestone. Va- |among the Salian or Merovingian riety and beauty of design characterize | Franks, compiled about the end of the the building. There are 97 rooms, 28 | fifth century. The law provided that with baths, as well as several showers, | no portion of Salic land could be in- and a swimming pool in the back gar- | herited by & woman. By the arbitrary den near the tennis courts. There are | application of this law to the succession two_nurseries, rooms for maids, foot- |to the crown, women were excluded men and chauffeurs, and there are |from the throne of France in the four- libraries, sitting rooms, a drawing room, a long dining room and the ball room. Q. Of what wood was the ark made? —B.E. H A. The Bible states that it was bukt of gopher wood. The precise species has not been definitely determined Cypress, pine and cedar are the three {most likely and the general opinion is that cypress was the wcod used. Q. What coffee ernment Java?>—M. K. D. A. Mandheling and Ankola, grown in teenth century, and it is in this sense that the term “Salic law” is commonly Q. Is it true that both the large and small size currency are now being made?—A. I. T. _A. Since January 1, 1930, the old size currency has been canceled as re- ceived, and all currency issued has been of the new small size. Q How long did the War of the Roses last?>—H. J. A. Thirty years. Highlights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lauds Propos” or “Echoes and Chatter” | payment. These men claimed that they column).—I have just come from | themselves and their families were suf- be- | fering severely as the result of this dis- conceded | appointment. I E MATIN, Paris (From “Echos et | out the consolation of any immediate an outrageous upbraiding cause I generously In our opinion, the mu- my seat in the “Metropolitan” to a | nicipality, if it cannot meet all its ob- lady who, though she certainly gave | ligations, should pay first of all its la- though she hates the Prench, and wears out the patience of her elderly maid. She plans gardens to duplicate those of Roxby House when she went there as a bride of 15. To the end she is in- domitable, an eminent Victorian, a ‘Titan among tomen.h:he nnlt ;::ter g( Mary Hervey is a vemen mod- ernu,flcuon and dex\es to stand beside Galsworthy's Soames Forsyte. * gk ok x the “Economic and Social History published by the Endowment for International Peace, ten volumes have been published in the Russian series under the editor- ship of Prof. Paul Vinogradoff of Ox- now deceased, and Dr. Michael T. Florinsky, lecturer in economic history at Columbia University. The most re- cent volume, by Dr. Florinsky, is “The Empire.” It ;«d "‘fi of the of czarism and al ::’17 Il‘lunnedmfl the strain of the World War and the release of the forces revolution which had been . Complete tion of the army came before the revo- lution. For the personal side of downfall, Dr. Florinsky draws upon the letters of Nicholas II and the Crarina to each other. They show, as has- been noted by other commentators subject, the domination of the Czar by his wife and the domination of the Czarina by Rasputin. But the fa- natical monk did not bring about the Russian breakdown and the revolution. The causes of these were far deeper, in the appearance of being old, most evi- dently was not! As she took the tro ble to explain to me with more volubil- ity than consideration. This discom- fiture reminded me of another ex- perience in the compartment of & Tail- road train, which, while not at all a rebuff, was nevertheless quite as star- | tling. I had demanded politely of my unknown companions in the carriage whether the smoke of my tobacco as light as their ringlets, discommoded them, when in response, and with diffi- culty’ suppressing their laughter, they produced a box of “havanas.” It is scarcely credible but these young women smoked cigars! There is assuredly evolution going on in the world today, and it seems that we must set up an entirely new code of honor, decorum and custom for the modern youth. There is a vast differ- ence between the standards of civility— yes, and of decency—appertaining to the old, and the new, generations. Worse | than that, it is suggested that we have scarcely started upon the downgrade of what is to be a general decadence and | demoralization. Whether it will actually come to these disasters, or prove simply an exchange in the respective positions of the young and the old, will be seen sufficiently soon. At present one does not know how to comport oneself in a tramway. Before long, it is likely the ladies will offer their seats in the “Metro” to fatigued gentlemen, and ask permission to smoke their pipes in the train! Evolution—what fantasles are con- jured in thy name! And what delin- quencies tondoned * X k% Seek to Know More Of Chicago’s New Mayor. News-Chronicle, London. — Chicago has got rid of “Big Bill” and that in itsslf is a good thing. But we should congratulate Chicago much more heart- ily if we knew a little more about the St. George who has slain this particular dragon. Very few people seem to know much about Mr. Cermak. The name has a promising revolutionary smack, and its owner seems to be losing no time in getting to work. But whether much will really happen as & result remains to be seen. At sent all that the wise prophet venture to say about Chi- cago's new mayor is that at any rate he cannot well be worse than the old. * X x % Cabaret Edict Will Affect Musicians. El Universal, Mexico City.—Forty- eight cabarets have been ordered closed by the chief of police due to their fail- the | ure to comply with the recently issued regulations of the central department with reference to their equipment and conduct. Apart from the inconvenience thus to be sustained by certain elements of the public, the Union of Musicians f| will be chiefly affected, as it is esti- mated about 300 of those belonging to this order and who play In these estab- lishments will be added to the ranks of the unemployed. For this reason the musicians seek a stay of execution to m their artistic means of livell- * * % ¥ ol gy Stowe ‘Telegrafo, Guayaquil—There ap- e T gt the mn i ccom) that the m e plaining junicipality now owes them for four weeks’ service, with- d reality of Homeric Troy and its heroes. uuchfld,h: & fiem heliet i the After unusln'b: fortune and having Jeft his youth behind him, he nvz;g) trade and money making and went off, 1ike & child, to dig in the of Greece, e ' B fmecca, . { lueauinthll |by far the most borers, who have no resources except their small and hard-earned wages. * oxox % Figures Show Italian Worker Poorest Paid. Italia, Paris (exterritorial publica- tion).—According to statistics compiled by the International Commission of La- bor at Geneva, the Italian workman is poorly paid of the proletariat anywhere. The figures fur- nished by the commission show not only the comparativé wage received, but the Telation of earnings to the cost of ac- tual necessities per capita. In England these two factors are ab- solutely correlated—that is to say, a man’s earnings represent and are based upon a careful estimate of what it will cost him to live. So in the labor com- mission’s tabulation, in the case of the workman in Great Britain a man's av- erage earnings and form of expenditure re both set at 100, for purposes of com- parison with thie Tespecttve earnings and expenses of workmen in other countries. These contrasts are very interesting, and we reproduce them to show the wretched state of the Italian wage earner. In the first column shown below is' indicated the composite figure for food, fuel, clothing, shelter and light. In the second column appears the index figure of the relative salary received: Necessary _Wage: Expenditure. Receivs 100 100 190 1 3 82 ] 39 From this table it is revealed that the Italian peasant or day laborer is paid less than the corresponding con- stituent in any other country. It is shown, too, that the discrepancy be- tween ' earnings and the amount re- quired for necessities is greater than in any other land; for while in Germany the workman is 41 points in earning capacity below the stipend he should properly be awarded, and in Austria and Spain 63 and 62 points below, the deficit between earnings and expendi- tures for this class in Italy, the land of such highly lauded Fascist doctrines, declines to the appalling index of 88. These deficlencies, of course, all have to be made up out of the public purse. which accounts for the ruinous system of taxation now enforced in so many countries, but particularly in those last mentioned. In the case of Italy, it re- quires no gifted mathematician to cal- culate ‘the width of the gulf between ist promise and Fascist perform- ance, clearly evidenced in the poverty of 50 large & part of the population. e England Uniteg - States O Memorial Suggested | For Miss Robertson Prom the Oklahoma City Times. Generous Oklahomans will not fail to provide the suitable meniorial for the late Miss Alicc Robertson, w suggested by the Muskogee Phoenix. That newspaper urges that an Alice Robertson scholarship in Bacone College to the ga long 1ife to helping others, particularly the Indians. Hoenix suggests that this scholarship be made available to Indians, that the 'people Miss Alice served so well, be given this additional wmxenlty for higher education. is no doubt that this is the sort of memorial that Miss Robertson herself would most appreciate. This would be an unscifish and lasting tribute to an unselfish woman. Her interest and close assoclation wish Bacone College makes that school the Pplace for such a scholarship, and no Vvast sum would be * effort to help others & great