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g Y WASHINGTON, D. C. Y......August 8, 1031 Rate by Carrier Within the City. 3¢ per month yable in Advance. ind Virginia. All Other States and Canada. Sunday...] yr. xi;,ng: mo. §1.00 mrg&u 80; 1 mo: 60 Member of the Associated Press. Associated Press s exclysively entitled erediied To It oF Not otherwise cre the loc: iches herein are also reserved. Ay to ublication of all news d al e local new herein. All rights of publication of — Rights of Virginia Car Riders. Thus far a solution of the problem Yalsed by the Government’s impending ‘vlosing of the Mount Vernon, Alexandria snd Washington Railroad terminal at frwelfth street and Pennsylvania ave- nue has been approached from two One is for the railroad to abandon its tracks and privileges within the District and the payment of a compen- satory award to the railroad. That pro- ‘posal is obviously unfair, both in its dis- regard of the convenience of the patrons of the railroad and in its assumption of some mythical liability on the part of District taxpayers which they incur through the railroad's loss of its present terminal. The proposal, for the time being, 15 safe in & dark pigeonhole, ‘Where it belongs. ‘The other is for a new terminal north bf Pennsylvania avenue, possibly at Eleventh and E streets. That proposal has been turned down once by the Pub- lic Utilities Commission, correctly an- ticipating the traffic difficulties that would result. The commission, in turn, has offered the railroad terminal facili- tles in Southwest Washington on Water street, which the railroad declines to consider. None of this history, however, pre- supposes any prejudice on the part of either the Public Utilities Commission or other District authorities against the manifestly just and reasonable demands of Virginia residents who patronize regularly the Mount Vernon, Alexandria and Washington Railroad, fand the Arlington and Fairfax Railroad, these demands being that something convenient access to downtown Wash- ington, where a great majority of them work and transact their business. It can be taken for granted that the find it possible t suggest other ex- than street terminals, which, as the congested section is con- should be considered a thing of idea of a loop, or belt of the Washington, Baltimore and An- napolis terminal or some other off- street terminal. But responsibility for solution of the problem rests primarily upon the rail- road operators. It is up to the railroad to make a proposition that will be ac- ceptable to the city authorities. If one is refused, it should be ready with feasible alternatives. The hearings next week should provide an excellent opportunity for ‘judging whether the raliroad at present is actuated by a sincere and honest desire to make some arrangement by which it may continue to furnish efficient and convenient service for its patrons, or whether it is playing a waiting game in the hope of making the most out of the situation by which it has already delayed the Federz! bullding program - ———— Motion picture divorces are so fre- iquent that genuine love interest in films wppears to depend entirely on the scenario writers. s P Marriage has been described as a lot- tery. Between matrimonial drawings Reno whiles away the time with a little roulette, ———— French Casinos Miss Dollars. Reports from across the seas indi- Cate that Western Europe 15 hard hit this Summer by a fatare of the Amer- fcan tourlst crop. Early in the season there were indications that the great tide of money-bearers and spenders that annually sets in toward those shores was in lower volume than usual. As the weeks passed the situation be- came worse, from the point of view of all the principal resorts are and may have to measures are taken for from losses. A delegation approach Premier Laval & proposal for the reduction of national taxes imposed upon casinos such establishments. One of the cmbers of the Chamber of Deputies id, after & meeting of representatives of the seven largest resort casinos, at Deauville, Cannes, Alx-les- Bains, Biarritz, Nice, Le Touquet and “It must be remembered that watering places and the hotel indus- try.” A report just submitted showed that the seven great casinos mentioned- had a deficit in 1930 as compared with 1929, their recelpts being twenty-one per | cent less. The indications are that this season the deficit will be twice as large as that of last year. This means that while the French resorts of chance are suffering, a great volume of American money has been kept over here. Hard as times are now in America, they would probably have been much harder if the tourist trade had not slackened and the French casinos were not in the red. The Germans in Rome. Chancellor Bruening and Forelgn Minister Curtius are in Rome, pursuing the political peregrinations which set in with their trip to England in June on the business of the Hoover moratorium plan. Neither that journey mnor their later visit to Paris outstrips in under- lying significance the communings now in progress with Premier Mussolini and Forelgn Minister Grandi. The outside world is not likely to learn much of them beyond platitudinous communiques and uninformative pleasantries. As a matter of fact, Germany and Italy share certain longings, the realization of which would have far-reaching conse- quences. ‘When the Italians disrupted the Triple Alliance in 1914 and threw in their lot with the allies against Germany and Austria-Hungary, the action of the Rome government stirred Berlin and Vienna to the depths. No losses in blood or treasure which the cen- tral powers inflicted upon their va- rious foes during four terrible years of war were regarded as quite such fitting retribution as the defeats visited upon Ttaly on the Plave and elsewhere. Now, as Mussolini said yesterday at Rome, “the war is over, and we all have need of fresh air." There is a particular kind of fresh air in which both Germany and Italy notoriously would like to disport them- selves. It is the stratum in which they hope, some day, to find it possible to effect a revision of the treaties of Versailles and St. Germain. Although Ttaly signed those pacts as a congueror and helped to dictate their terms, they were negotiated by the regime which Mussolini three years later expelled from power as treasonable to the Italian ‘people. Mussolini and Germany see eye to eye in demanding revision of the peace treaties. The Germans are the more determined proponents, but the Fascist dictator ever and anon registers sym- pathy with their aspirations, not be- cause of any prospective gains by Ger- many, but because of desired benefits | for Italy. Mussolini feels that Fiume | and the South Tyrol were wretchedly poor booty for the Italians, considering how much better the other allied pow- ers fared in the- distribution of Ger- man, Austrian, Hungarian, Turkish and Bulgarian territory. In other words, | Tl Duce wants a larger slice of the spoils. That is why, though for differ- ent reasons, he would make common cause with Italy's war-time enemies in bringing about & new deal from which all would profit. Germany and Austria meantime have a bitter grievance against Italy on ac- count of her treatment of the thousands of Germans who became Italian sub- | jects with the annexation of the South | Tyroleari and Trentino regions fm'merl)': part of the Austrian empire. Italy ls; accused of dragooning these Germans | and tyrannically disregarding their na- sionalistic susceptibilities. It is the | same indictment which Germany levels | against Poland in connection with the former Prussians now under the bor&-: heel of the Warsaw government. Italy's | and Poland's Germans are among those | “minorities.” for whose protection the peace treaties essayed to provide, but whose interests have been systematically | flouted ! There can hardly be any real rap- {prochement between Germany and | Ttaly, such as is in the making—on the | surface—at Rome this week end until | Irredenta Germanica becomes a cloed | incident and South Tyrol ceases to be a | bone of contention. Nor is the proposed German-Austrian tariff merger & | project calculated to cause Fascist hats }to be thrown into the air. It is the | { open season for political bargaining in Europe, and Mussolini 5 a shrewd l trader - | s | By introdueing Gilbert and Sulliva { under Government auspices. tbe Y {1slands, having sought every | remedy. may see whether they ! Jaugh their troubles off ———— can | Pop Bottles as Weapons When a fourteen-year-old girl | a trio of bank robbers by throwing bottles at them, as has just happered in Philkdelphia, some hope may be en- tertained that the spirit of the gangs | is weakening. Or else, perhaps i may be that the spirit of feminine youth is | waxing to promise a new dispensation of law and order | Tnis happening. as reported, took an | unususl form. The girl had gone to the bank to take his luncheon to her father, the cashier. She arrived just after the trio of bandits ad held him up and taken $800 in cash and were threatening him with death unless he opened the safe. One of them seized | her, and, with pointing pistol, threat-! {encd her also with immediate slaughte if she resisted. But she did just tha She yelled for help and threw at them two bottles of soft drinks which she, had brought for her fapher. The report does not state whether she hit her | marks. But at any rate the men fled and her cries atiracted the attention of workmen nearby and the fugitives were pursued and two of them were caught. The third, who got away, was | | wanting more salary THE EVENING STA those whe, about & year and a half ago, held up the same bank and stole more than $5,700. Various are the safeguards provided by modern banks against raids and rob- beries. There are bell alarms to bring assistance, tear gas spouts to disor- ganize the attack, electric contacts that drop metal barriers, trick cash drawers that empty into submerged safes upon a finger touch, all sort of gadgets for defense. But the girl with the pop bottle seems to be as good as any of them, save that one girl can hardly be expected to cope with as many as three men. Incidentally, 1 would be interest- ing to know how many other people there were in the bank when the raid took place, workers and patrons. The published account draws a picture of father and daughter alone with the thieves. These are moratorium days, but it is hardly to be credited that Philadelphia has reduced even its minor banking to a ane-man basis. ) Edison’s decision to disregard some of his physicians may be due to the fact that they negelected to word their bul- letins in a manner calculated to keep the distinguished patient in a cheerful frame of mind. It has been his habit to hope for the best, and also to work for it. ——————— When the Governor of Oklahoma ac- cepts the nickname “Alfalfa Bill” that does not imply that he specializes ex- clusively in agriculture. He undertakes to supervise the law of supply and de- mand, even for 5o erratic a commodity as ofl. e i ‘What appeared to be a private yacht on a pleasure trip was taken into cus- tody off the Atlantic Coast. Members of the crew were found to be slightly in- toxicated and very regretful that they had made a bungling attempt to put pleasure before business. e e Chancellor Bruening reminds the people of Germany that they must be prepared to help themselves as well as to take the benefit of advice and assist- ance. Germany likes philosophic theory, but has never yet depended on it to take the place of hard work in an emergency. ———r—e— ‘The police have notified New York of a war on gangsters. In this instance no pacifist, however insistent in his views, will feel the slightest inclination to in- terfere. Cr———— When aviation is mentioned Lind- bergh seems naturally to hold the cen- ter of the stage. This time he is using the midaight sun for a spotlight. A PERA AT iR el SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Skepticism. When homeward from a fishing trip He comes with sunburned nose, And talks of whales that he let slip And of the sweet repose He found in haunts of sylvan bliss 'Midst famished gnats; in sooth, The query that comes up is this: “Oh, does he tell the truth?” When in unwonted elegance The timid groom walks down The aisle, ‘'mid pomp and circumstance That interests the town, And unto his prospective wife He says, “This is, dear Ruth, ‘The happiest moment of my life"— Oh, does he speak the truth? And when the statesman cries aloud, “I crave no further fame. T ask not for position proud. I fain would guit the game And unto private life retire Amid the scenes of youth,” His lofty phrases we admire— But does he speak the truth? The Embarrassing Effort. “Good intentions ought to count for something,” remarked the generous person. “But they don't,” replied Miss Cayenne. “The most impolite ac- quaintance I have is one who lets you see what an effort she is making to be polite.” The Gray Matter Market. I used to think I could hire all the brains 1 wanted for twenty-five dollars a week” sald Mr. Pushem. ‘Well, couldnt you “Yes. But it wasn’t long before I had to call in a hundred-thousand-dollar lawyer to straighten out the kinks they put into my affairs.” Changing Fashions. Though curious hats and raiment queer Call forth a protest or a smile, let us give a little cheer. Side whiskers have gone out of styl Extremely Busy. “1 think,' said Farmer Corntossel that we ought to take steps to prevent | our son from spending so much time in idleness.’ Again you are doing the boy an in- stice,” replicd the fond mother. “He the busiest thing on the place. H is coloring a pipe, raling a mustache and learuing to play the guitar.” the A Motive Indorsed I don't blame that cook af our: Growcher, “But you the food she prepa Ce: She und larg come. & that 10 eat at a rest Gaaad are always com) ing of btedly wants a she can affc’d ant A Fan/e Protest. | Monopoly's & fearful thing Some method should be found To Reep the few from gathering What showid be passed around They've told the trusts seme that wake Applause thro And .next, percl take Our cherished things ut the land, ance, the courts will sports in hand. Shall every vear bring sad unrest For fond ambitions fled? And sec the same old laurels rest Upan the same old head? Nay! Let some other town that lacks Its just athietic claims, Devise some means to keep the Macks From winning all those games! other folks.” said Unele- Eben, “would for | remurked Mr. | Would | | | { | | { | | | | | WASHINGTON D. C, BATURDAY, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. A great change has come over the open road since Walt Whitman wrote his famous poem. Aruduled\nbelm\n‘otplnn.nt‘ ‘memories. Now it is the most dangerous area in the entire landscape. Where formerly it led to new vistas and prospects in life, today it too often leads to maiming and death. All the traffic experts have not been 1t is this veering around at the slight- est touch of the wheel which makes the motor car such llknuhflnce to the honest -road walker. m‘l‘? ‘{ty were not for this ability, it is | true, many a man would be run down | who now escapes, but it is a question | whether it is not almost as bad to be | scared to death as to be knocked for & | goal. WA The long, peaceful countryside has able to put this elongated Humpty | Dumpty together again. disappeared. The very spirit of the road is gone. | The spirit of the road has changed “There is no Whitman to write a “Song | from one of pleasant ambling to that of the Open Road” any more, for the |of tremendous hurry-scurry. “long, brown road” of which he sang | Instead of peace, we have pep—and has given way to a white one of con- | the devil take the hindmost. Maybe crete, and instead of leading ‘whither | you don't know the origin of that say- one pleases it all too often runs where | ing. In the elder days in Germany, | another gang killing.” one does not want to go. AR . Dogs and cats, intimate friends of man for many centuries, have imbibed some of his instincts, and take great pains to keep off the fastly traveled thoroughfares. You may look up a road for as far as the eve can see nowadays and never see one of these four-footed friends of man. They have enough common sense to realize that unless they are on wheels they had better keep out of the way. Tortoises, on the other hand, not hav- ing had the benefit of this training, are to be seen at all times of the da; and night crossing roads, both in the couptry and suburban areas. Recently we admonished two of these yellow-striped fellows who were &t- fempting to use out-of-date speeds on & | modern highway. There are two signs at the foot of this road. One says “Fifteen miles in this village.” The other, directly across the way, warns all and sundry that 25 miles is the lawful rate. Motorists accordingly never go less than 35 miles, commonly 40 miles, and at night 50 and 60 miles per hour. ‘When signs disagree what can the | motorist do except do as he pleases? A The first of the tortoises manifested some surprise when we picked him up by his carapace and set him on a lawn to one side of the road. But since two cars were approaching at a speed of 30 miles an hour, ai since the tortoise was making only about | 5 miles at the best, we thought it high time to remove him. The “pop” which a tortoise shell makes under an automobile wheel is highly disagreeable, and usually ends the life of the victim. The second tortolse was going faster, | but was on a much more traveled road. He was very indignant at being picked u Pinstead of drawing in his head and legs, as the other had done, this chap stuck them out angrily and kicked furi- ously as he was being placed in the grass. There was an angry look in his eyes, which said es plainly as a turtle can, “Just wait until you are gone—I am going right back on that road again!” * ok % % It used to be a pleasure to walk down a winding road, but today it is nothing much except a nuisance or a disagree- able necessity. ‘There is not so much dust, but there are more vehicles to stir up what there s, and their speed makes walking a constant worry and menace. There is no particular pleasure in walking when something comes darting at you at express rate speed every few seconds. These things do not have the benefit of tracks, and therefore can careen at will. | before there was any Germany, in_the | modern sense, devils were very much to the fore. There not only was the old master devil himself but a whole pack of smaller devils. All of them, including Old Nick, were thought to0 be constantly on the high road, looking out for lost souls to grab off in the passing. Hence it was belleved expedient for ‘humnn beings to travel in groups, not | only to guard themselves against wan- dering robbers, but even more to pre- vent the devil from seizing them. Occasionally some rider, braver than the rest, or perhaps under the influence of spirituous liquors, would propose a race, point out an objective, and start off, yelling: “And the devil take the hindmost!” * ¥ ¥ % It may be objected. and fairly enough, | that roads were always objects of util- |ity and not made primarily for esthetic uses. | _This is quite true, but roads in the alder days, still remembered by us who are not very old, also were fit for medi- | tations and offéred the consolation of | Nature to the weary. ° There was to be found alongean old- | time road, despite its clouds of dust, a certain measure of peace and happiness | which is to be found on the same thor- | cugniare no more. | Emclency has done its work. If there | are any more devils on our roads, they €0 on wheels, and they are made at nd | Detroit, Flint, etc. ok ok w | And all this is necessary, and no one | would say a word against it, of course. Progress Is progress, and no matter what happens we want it. ‘Prorreu is the fifth ingredient in the air. If we have to run as if a very devil | were after us when we cross even a 15- | foot road—and even more so because it is 0 narrow—we must recall in that | time that Caesar never had a chance to | o a tenth as fast—no, not & twentieth | as fast, How the great Augustus would have | loved an automobile, to be sure! | If he had had onme—and stranger | things can be imagined—he would have had one of the few, because the common people—the stinking mechanicals, as | Bhakespeare called them—would not have been permitted to own them. | _ That is why, among other things, our roads are wholesome and democratic; | in fact, strictly communistic, as Bernard | Bhaw points out in his book, “The In- | | telligent Woman's Guide to Soclalism and Capitalism.” (Is there any reader | who has ever been able to read more than 40 pages of it?) Song of the Open Road, indeed! Some day they will fence off all roads and permit no one to go on them except on wheels. Then it will be the Closed Road forever and ever. sf;ofiti(f : rlilield” Responsible : For Shooting of Children Almost unanimous is the country in branding the turning of machine guns on a group of children in a New York gang feud as due to an alliance between politics and lawless elements. The metropolitan officials and police are vig- orously charged with challenging the supremacy of Chicago as the unham- | pered field for killers. *“It is an alliance which corrupts en- forcement and public offices, stultifies public sentiment, flaunts law, order and decency, makes a mockery out of our sacred Institutions—and shoots innocent children in the back.” according to_the Uniontown Herald. Observing that New York gangsters have begun *‘mowing down little children and the police have been ordered to ‘shoot to kill' and ‘aim above the waist line, " the Chattanooge News, condemning Tammany, declares “The gangsters aim ‘above the waist line’ will not be the gangsters who have been paying off.” “If those in New York who temporize | with crime,’ adyises the Sioux Falls Daily Argus-Leader, “have a ark of conscience or manhood in their make- ups, they are shudcering over the fear- | { ful vhings their activities have wrought. They cannot drive from their minds the picture of the helpless children lying bleeding in the Harlem street. And on a generai scale it should disturb every New Yorker who holds an official ca- pacity connected witir law enforcement. * ok ok % Qudting & police statement that the department is up against the “stumbling block of characteristic silence—a situa- tion_which ‘ought to wake the public up,” the San Antonio Express com- ments: “Wake it up to what? The metropolitan section of the American ublic reputedly is outraged over the Indest effect 5f gunman activity locall but what is its and its police force's re action to the cause? On the very night of the atrocity the police evidentiy found no stumbling block in the way charging the child-killing gunfire to the ramifications of the beer war. And the following dgy one man who was dragged {in as a suspect—mistakenly supposed to ywn the death car—'was known to police circles as a beer runner.’ More than a column of pewspaper type Js needed to tell about the nature of tke city police endeavors to ‘bring in the killers.' The story contains net one word econterning Federal. State or city official efforts to smash the prolific source and cause of just such atrocities—the beer wai itself Vet on July 29 and again on the 30th the names of rival chiefs in that bloody business figured in the news of the child slaughte! “The indiscriminate shooting that em to prevatl among gangsiers in the cpinion of the Charlotte News is a deadly threat to the safety innocent people, yet it canngt be le: than obvious tha® the real Jrime, thg eal menace to the American people, lies in the piet that, excep} for an incensing coident. would have been listed as just the Springield (Mass.) Republ®an charges that “the police are handicapped by the protec- ticn which many of the gaugstes jov through a tortuols series of con- néctions, official and political. Kuown' gangsters on sight is not going to get us very far in cleaning out the racketeers amgl their murderous hire- liny “The outrageous character of the crime itself” in the judgment of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “is incentive appear in other things, cruelty to children arouses it. * Thie instance of turning maching guns upol children at play in an atteiapt tg put a man ‘on ihe spot’ resulting in death and wounds, was enough to arouse the populace to fury—and it bas.” JTNe Worcester Evening Gagette says: “This particular outrage, like every crime, ought to result in convict! and But turning every police- . jury and to produce “Reforms are.almost y th the gang remains as alas! the bearer of the $800 that had be all right if he jes' tried to live up ' the grip af o been filched. When the row was over to dem princtples without makin' R¥n- {5y dor bt 1he Savannair th . inks' the siaying “may t whom the police will | en- Shooting ; T great | crystallize sentiment and moral support of efforts to stamp out lawlessness than | anything that could have happened.” | and the Jersey City Journal maintains | that “all that is needed is a bona fide | order from the "higher-ups’ to the police to go to work on the ‘dogs.’ " “An aroused public opinion, with the slogan ‘No mercy for gangsters, lieves the Schenectady Gazette, "} need today. The heaviest penalty should | be imposed for the slightest offense. | Gangland should be taught the people { have awakened from their lethargy and | that they are determined to have crime | stamped out. If the people are insis- | tent, there is no question about what police bodies, jurles and judges will do. But so long s the people go on with their indifferent attitude we shall con- tinue to read of innocent children being shot down in cold blood by cowardly gangs of murderers in cars bristling | with machine guns.” Condemnation of the methods em- ploved by the police is voiced by the Ann Arbor Daily News, with the state- ment:, “All *known beer runners’ were called in for questioning. There was quite an assemblage of them. Known gangsters rounded up by the police for an investigation! The police have them card indexed, along with the addresses. When a murder occurs they may be asked questions. The idea seems to be that beer runners shall not be molested except when Kkillings occur. There is | police efficiency for you! But maybe the shooting of playing children on a New York street will be charged to pro- hibition. Then, again, the patrons of bootleggers might give the incident a little consideration in terms of personal responsibility, particularly those who have children.” The Portland Oregon Journal describes the incident: “It is lucky there were not more killed and injured, It was rowded street. Approximately 75 flam- g bullets were poured from the mouth of the machine gun Anybody in the viclnity was a possible victim. There was no thought of who might or might not be kilied. There was no thought of the safety of innocent bystanders, not even of children. Is New York to per- mit the same gaig sovereignty 1o estab- lish itself there as in Chicago? -t Prevention of Bank Faiiurrs Prom the Chicago Daily News In a letter to the controller of the currgncy protesting against the lenien- cy of courts and parole and probation boards teward bankers convicted of ¢m- bezzlement, fraud or vther sarious of- lenses, Seyalor Fletcher of Florida es an important issye. o that failure fitly to pungb sn‘:;:;gx‘d- ers is no smallifactor in the admittedly ynsatisfactory banking situation, Evidenc¢ is accumulating. that Con- g7ess intends to investigate the- entire bject of bank failures—¢,000 banks this country have failed since 1920, ac- wordipg 9 Senator Fletcher—with the intencion “of placing the responsibility where it belongs. Meanwhile econ- omists ‘and practical fianciers are ad- vancing tentatlve theories in explana- tion of the painful facts, Some students of the subject assert that inadequate supervision of banks by Federal and,State authorities sccounts for meny bank failures. Some think ihat timely admonition by the Federal Reserve Board would have averted det- | Timental violations of the banking laws | which resulted in the codapse of fnen- cial institutions, Not a few persons hold that the dountry had too many smajl banks to suit the needs oMan age of mergers, chain stores, fagm co-opera. tives and metropolitan super-banks. They recommend eiher. lideral branch banking laws or else legislation requir- ing at least £100.000 capital’ for any ne® country or. suburban bank. City sted such gmend- . ) and | Year's sgvere drought | plain many n!theh-nkw:; Such | causcs are transitory~ Yet the entire | AUGUST 8 1931, THE LIBRARY TABLE By the Booklover M*Ie Colum’s new book, Roads in Ireland.” is as typically Irish as he is I P.d{l.\‘:gt“m nfu;{n spoken of as perhaps Tepresent- ative of Irish Tei nce. His name combines those of the two chief Irish saints, Patrick and Colum-cille. He was born in County Longford, in al- most the exact center of Ireland, De- cember 8, 1881, and spent his boyhood there and in County Cavan, just to the north. County Longford was the birth- place of Oliver Goldsmith and the home of Maria Edgeworth when she was writ- ing her Irish stories, the most famous of which are “Castle Rackrent” and “The Absentee.” Colum became saturated with the folklore and traditions of early Celtic culture, and grow familiar with the popular songs and ballads. He early began to write both poetry and prose. Soon he went into the Natlonal Theater movement, and there became acquainted with Lady Gregory, William Butler Yeats and A. E. (George Russell). plays were produced by the Irish Thea- ter’ when he was still almost a boy. “Broken Soil” was given in 1903. His first volume of verse, “Wild Earth.” was published in 1907. _In 1911 he helped to found the Irish Review, and was its editor, 1912-13. In 1923 he went to Hawall at the request of the Hawaiian | Legislature to make a study of Hawalian | legends and native lore. The two vol- umes, “At the Gateway of the Day” and “The Bright Islands,” published in the | two succeeding years, were the result of this study. Padraic Colum's other books include “The Boy Who Knew ‘What the Birds Said,” “Dramatic Leg- ends and Other Poems,” “Castle Con- quer,” “The Road Round Ireland.” “Old Pastures.” a collection of poems, and | “Orpheus: Myths of the World” In/ 1912 Padraic Colum married Mary Gun- ning Maguire of Dublin, a literary critic. Their home is in the United States, at | New Canaan, Conn., * oK k% “Cross Roads in Ireland” would per- haps be classified as a book of travel, but that would do it slight justice. It would be of little practical help to any one desiring to travel in Ireland and wanting to know routes, hotels and methods of conveyance. But it would be a dell?ht!ul companion to the traveler in Ireland who knew how to get about and warited an interpretation of Irish life, physical and psychic, and a wealth of information about Irish history and tradition, fairy lore and song. Padraic Colum wandered over the Irish country- side and into the towns, not lingering too long in the towns, and what he saw was always what a poet would see: but sometimes the poet was saddened by the harshness of economic facet. In beal- tiful Glengarriff, on sheltered. Bantry Bay, with the mountains running into the sea, he was happy in the scenery of mountain and glen and the enchant- ment of subtropical flowers, trees and plants in the gardens. But he turned sadly to the r side of the picture. “But we should be deceived if we thought that the flourishing vegetation that we see around the bay indicates a rich countryside. This is one of the poorest districts in Ireland—it is the southern limit of the resourceless, ever- crowded lands officially known as the Congested Districts that stretch with some breaks from Donegal down through Kerry. When we pass the fronts of the hotels with their fine gardens and coun- try seats with their demesnes we come upon most poverty-stricken places. Glengarriff itself is a miserable village. | But there are more miserable places around it, as I was to discover in a day or two.” He then tells of a midnight visit which he made with the Glengar- riff doctor to the cabin of some tenants |in the “uneconomic land,” 7 miles from Glengarriff, through bogs and up | 3 raufih mountain path. There a woman Jay ill of “fever,” with an old woman watching by her and crooning Irish phrases, “words of a charm against fever,” while three scared children looked on. The doctor said soothing, kind, professional nothings, and after leaving the hut told the forlorn hus- band that his wife could not live—"she | had no reserve of vitality.” R Many Irish places ‘are briefly and | vividly characterized in “Cross Roads in | | Treland.” “Cavan is a country of lakes | | —indeed, the most famous poem about | it begins, ‘In Cavan of the little lakes.' " | “I like Ballinagh for many reasons—one of them is that its name means “The | Mouth of the Ford of Steeds.” “More | than any other city I have ever been | in, Belfast is a city of workmen.” hump-shaped eminence of basalt, with | scant herbage and scrub upon it—this | is Slieve Mis or Slemish, and we come | upon it suddenly as we pass from An- | trim into Down. It was from the slopes | of this eminence that the youthful ‘cap- tive who afterwards took the name of Patrick watched over his master's flocks or droves. But the Liffey makes a loop—that is, if a loop can be mad with a line that is all loops—and so | manages to get into three counties— Wicklow, Kildare and Dublin.” “May- | nooth is popular and Maynooth is prac- | tical. Its heads are giving attention, not | to metaphysics, but to conditions. Their first thought is discipline.” “Kilkenny | is a medieval city become an Irish mar- | ket town. Fields and hedge rows begin with the last house £ a street. Ar- riving in Youghal, I Went into the gar- | den-where potatoes were first planted and the first pipe of tobacco was smoked in Ireland. The good Elizabethan house that Sit Walter Raleigh lived in is still here—the house in which he entertained | Edmund Spenser.” * x * X It seems too much of a compliment to M. Georges Dubamel that his book, “Scenes de la Vie Future,” has been translated into English and published in this country under the title “America the Menace.” M. Duhamel spent the usual short time in the United States allotted themselves by foreign writers who do not like us to start with and are determined not to find anything to like Such writers never seem to have the least distrust of their own judgment. They are perfectly sure that their con- sions, reached after a glance here and there, at this and that, are sound and just. Perhaps we have tourists who His | { but have we many writere of repute who thus humor their prejudices? M Duhamel speaks of Chicago as the can cer city, and continues: “Between Chi cago and myself there is a corpse. the corpse of an oOX." served cocktails in New York clubs frice, wood alcohol, paregoric, varnish and vitriol. We assume that he did not drink many of them. He denounces the automobile es a cause of many vices and the discourager of virtues, and, of course. holds the United States respon- sible for the automobile. American moving pictures are slaves.” the “poisoned nourishment of a multitude.” We know that there i much in our national customs and de- portment which might be improved, but we should be likely to profit more by a lecture which was less vehement. R No well worn tourist paths, dotted with good hotels, satisfy Miss Anna Louise Strong. She seeks adventure, which she tells abodt in. her book, “The Road to the Grey Pamir.” She crossed the central p!l!el&of Asia, the joute of Marco Polo, ai% saw, something of the Soviet organizatign in Central Asia. She spent two months in Tpshkent, and at joiped the Pamir Gevlogical Ex- lition. Of the dangers she speaks tly: “Somewhere out in the wilds of the Vale of Alal I was to find a VKit%hiz guide &ith whom I could not exchenge a syllable, and he was to de- liver me to troops on the mareh. If he Jailed to do this, who would ever know of 12", . * x x % " The steps by which Stalin maneuvered awd plotted the elimipadon of Trotsky, Kamenev, Zincylev and other Commu-~ nist leaders and eventually came to be the dictator.of the Soviet government are well and tuated the fear that f¢ .uonl‘ m.’ intervention in Rus. |at Quito recently of a group of immi- | form similar judgments about Prance, | He tells of being | which were composed of cologne, denti- | “a pastime for | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS ‘BY FREDERIC J. HASKI This great service is maintained by | The Evening Star for the benefit of its | readers, who may use it every day with- | out cost to themsclves. All they have | 1o do is ask for any information desired, | and they will receive prompt answers by | mail. Questions must be clearly written | and stated as briefly as possible. In- clase 2-cent stamp for return postage and address The Evening Star Informa- tion Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, | Washington, D, C. i Q. Wifit system of contract bridge did Culbertson invent?-~C. C. A. Credit for the “foycing” system is claimed by Ely Culbertson. He also criginated the “ryle of eight.” Do taxicab companies receive spe- cial rat n teres?— T. A L Companies operating me- is make contracts with (&re‘ companies on a mileage basis. The tire company guarantees a given mileage for its tires. It then contracts to keep a company's cabs cogstantly supplied with tires. At monthly or weekly periods the aggregate mileage shown on all cabs | is ealculated, muitiplied by the agreed | | tire rate per mile, and the total paid to | the tire company. The number of tires used is not even counted, Q. What causes heat lightning?—A. | i M. i A. It is due to the reflection from | distant clouds of far-off flashes, the | thunder being too far away to be heard. | The Weather Bureau says, however, that | it is possible for an electric discharge M gradually from a burst disebarge to a | full flow, and such a discharge would | produce little or no thunder. i Q. How many galleys had Rome at the time of the E rst Punie war?—M. | . D. A. The Roman fleet is said to have consisted of 330 vessels, each containing 300 rowers and 120 soldiers. Q. How are French sardines canned? | F. A. They are first beheaded and then gutted and assorted for size. They are | washed in sea water and dried on wire screens, nets or willows in the open air. They are then plunged into a caldron of boiling olive oil. When sufficiently cooked they are drained, packed in tins, un:ednlled with oil, then hermetically sealed. Q. What kind of handles did the earliest colonial furniture have?—C. N. A. The oldest handles were drop- handles, formed like an earring, backed by a small plate. Q. How much land does the City of | San Francisco cover?—T. B. A. It includes within its municipal territory 46'2 square miles. Q. What should the constitutign of :exgnn'q civic organization include?— A. The constitution should in its se eral articles state the name of the or- ganization, its object, the classes and quatifications of its members, its officers and the method of their election and | term of office, its standing committees | and the method of their selection and their dutles, its regular and how special meetings may be called, and how the constitution may be amended. Q. Wasn't it Carlyle who lost the manuscript of a book, the only copy he biad, and was foreed to rewrite it'— A. 'When Carlyle had completed the | first volume of his history of Prench | Revalution his friend, John Stuart Mill, to :nd ’c‘nflcl:ed.hmll's servant girl, not: nowing that the manuscript abic, burned 1t. Catlyle later rewrote’ the book. > d Q. Did Senator Davis of Pennsyls vania organize the secret society knows as the Moose?—T. B. J. hded i 508 ot Louiwviie, By. By founded in 1888 at . BY Dr. J. H. Wilson | Q. When was the word “sweetheart™ | coined? 3 g A. The term “sweetheart” was = nally written in the form of two i, | 1t 1s found in Jiterature as early as 1200, | though there is no by whom it was first used. Q. Is there more than one “Miack Monday” in history?—G. T. R. A. In English bistory the name is: given to Easter Monday, April 14, 1860, en many soldicrs of Edward III died trom cold befere the City of Paris. Eng— lish schoolboys give the name to first Monday of school v Q. How were patents secured before we had the Patent Office?—D. G. A. Patents were granted by the Stats governments before the Constitution conferred this power upon Congress, Q. How can the safe capacity of a N. B. | through the afr to build up more or less | rowboat be determined? A. To test for capacity fill the boat full of water and find out how many it will support in the water as the people cling to its sides. This number is the' safe number to carry in the boat. It boats or cances are equipped with @ small air-tight compartment of metal in bow and stern, their buoyancy will ba' greatly increased, but such compart- ments should be tested frequently for leaks. The capacity of the craft should be plainly marked on its sides. Q. What is & “cheroo®?—W. K. : A. A kind of cigar, truncated at both sides, originally made in South India” and Manila. ¢ Q. How much ney is spemt sach year for sports such as base ball and foot ball?—E. L. M. :A. The two big leagues last season, played to 12,000,000 people, Who in more than $12,000.000 in adm: ¥ Including the minor leagues, sambeiona run to at least $30,000,000. Last Fal 30,0000 people paid out at least $75, 000,000 for foot ball tickets, a large number of these being for games. The national foot bail bill, and prep school, is around $150,000,000. A Q. What is the origin of the expres-: sion “Castles in Spain”?—L. R. A. Fashionable adventurers in France used to impose on the and get: money and social advantages out of them by telling gales of their castles in Spain, which, needless to say, they did' not possess, A. Steele Mackaye. 1842-94. Q. What is the difference in the use’ of the words “can” and “may”?—C. F. A. “May" expresses contingency, wish N iplies or mental ability. Q;_Which State has only three eoun- tles?—G, D. A. Delaware. Highlighis on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands L TELEGRAFO, Guayaquil—The lack of a comtrol both strict and | severe on immigration has| caused fatal consequences to | this country through ' the en- trance of other ds that have thrown open their doors to all that desire to come from beyond the seas, t0o often because of behavior that has made them emi- nently unpopular at home. The capture grating malefactors has emphasized | anew the necessity of scanning the rec- | ords of all mew arrivals to ascertain | the reasons prompting their forsaking the country of their nativity. Those whose prior activities constitute a prejudice to the likelihood of their | leading a law-abiding life in Ecuador | should be rigorously denied the right ! 0 come among u: | P | erforms Duties With | Buliet in Brain. A Noite, Rio de Janeiro.—Raulino | Nunes da Silva, a Portuguese, attached | to police station 35, has just undergone | another examination by the National Academy of Medicine in the effort vfav ascertain why it is that a 38-millimeter | projectile lodged within his skull causes him no discomfort and interferes not at | all with his duties as a gendarme. The bullet lies adjacent to the occipital, or| nosterior, portion of the skull on the | ght side, and X-ray photographs re- eal it as apparently within the brain No similar case is said to be cn record in all the annals of interna- tional nedicine. Senhor da Silva was wounded in the course of a combat with everal delinquents at Bello Horizonte several months ago, and when taken to the hospital it was considered that he could not survive. The surgeons feared to attempt removal of the bullet, but his condition marvelously improved. nevertheless, and now such action will not likely be taken, as his health seems in nowise impaired. The projectile is thought to lie in a membraneous sac which prevents contact with the cere- * % % % Lord nverclyde Seeks Wife's Silence. | Le Matin, Paris—Lord Inverclyde is much displeased with his wife, who, with the intentlon of securing a di- vorce from him, has refugeed to N vada, in the United States, where she will wait the lapse of time necessary for a legal resiGence before she can ob- tain an annulment of her marriage. 1t appears that Lord Inverciyde wishes to avoid publicity, whereas Lady Inverclyde does not fear the notoriety given in America to the severing of the matrimonial bonds of those in high so- ciety. Lord Inverclyde fears that some of the allegations to be made aj him, if detailed in the press, many undesiables, and the same r;fimfi)m have been noted n| i bellum. ‘ Traffic Suspended ag Cattle Block Street. Diario del Comercio, Barra At noon one day, for qunn Nme all traffic was suspended m’m Paz. The cause? Simply that ‘thoroughfare was being used during this: in tion for the convoy of & herd of eattle, contrary to all the nicipal edicts made and provided. As is well known, except, apparently, to these drovers, permission for taking stock through the streets is forbidden except at certain specified hours. hour of 11:30 a.m. is It is certainly incumbent on the au- thorities to take note of ghese infrac~ tions of the law and to hgale vy penalties on those responsibie. is not the time that these tedious columns progressing through the streets’ in broad daylight have directed atten- tion to the anomalies between law and its observance. Vg large. mu- Let us hope that.such an will not be seon repeated. Chickens. From the Baltimore Sun. We are_extremely gratified to learn: of the Cemsus from a solemn bull Bureau that the number of chickens on American farms on January 1, was 378,888,128, as compared with 537,127 in 1920. This evidence an increase in the feathered pop: of American barnyards is one of the most votable signs of progress that have come to our attention in these dreary, days. On the basis of such figures, Mr. Hoo- ver can now revise his 20-year plan for, America so that it will pro'l‘ TOOSts, coops and scratching areas for 40,000~ 000 more chickens in addition to schools, homes and so forth for 20,000,000 hu- mans. Nothing less than such a revi- sion will suffice now that the Census Bureau has revealed the chicken pop- ulation to be growing at the rate of 20,000,000 in 10 years. We are also heartened at the knowl« edge.that chickens are multipl more rapidly than human beings. f the mmrhu“nns of mh:rsnst are maintained e shall soon ve much larger - | tions of fried chicken and have tfi:’m | more often com. perison with which Mr. Hq prom. ise 1:‘ more radios and automobiles grow 8 L Our only?misgiving in the face of | these impressive chicken statisties is | the possibility that the enumerators of | the Census Bureau may have been a little | too enthusiastic and may have allowed themselves to enumerate a few chickens. that did not actually exist. What a* tragedy it would be to learn, after & | count. that there were really only 378, 888, chickens instead of the 378,888, | 128 the bureau reported. DD e e Voleano Put Into Park. From the Pasadena Star-News. Lassen Volcanic National Park fs | make pleasant reading for his strictly | being added to the natural wonder- moral Scottish countrymen. It is for lands of California which are being this reason that the “noble lord” has{made permanent piaygrounds for tour- introduced before the Court of Sessions | ists and sight-seers. ‘California is es- at Edinburgh a judiciary action to | ly i in natural wonders and which husbands resort enly in cases | sublimities. Several of 4 !most rare. He ;ifmanld‘jst;':l Ullfi rmlr!‘ Ilmllnhlv! heg'phl.‘('d g; m),ytln;"l !certain injunction wi wi require | . Including one and onl 0- |his wife to inaintain a “perpetual si- | semite and potiions of the big trees re- |1ence upon all the episodes of their con- | gion. . {jugal life.” 1" In other !grmlne.'l':‘)rd Inverclygenleekul to impose, by means, Wl zne\-er before been successfully exacted of any weman by any other threat or | artifice—that is, complete silence. In | this case, of course, it is with wkfl* been 1 é‘a"“‘lfii wcomn;::ny of he:‘ l-u&ln”: in lpfl?nuw archives of the court at Edin- | hun buygh such an action has not been templed since 1864, when 3 gentlemai | named Helverton was sl g v ry silente. .uflglr! has not much vogue 'Slllwmi.m‘ltl‘nymlil.mt