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v A4 {THE EVENING STAR ! o Wb Susiay Mupsing Editien. they would probably WASHINGTON, D. C, BATURDAY.....August 15, 1931 the outset, such as the cap- some important stronghold, bave gamed =a ‘momentum, attracting to themselves great numbers of the people. The dis- couragements, however, came early and the capture of the iwo principal chicfs stroke at ture of THE EVENING e. His first flight of moment— as yet unrivaled feat—was the flight across the Atlantic from west to east. He has not since attempted any com- parable Jong-distance ocean flying. The east-west transatlantic fiight is recog- nized as the most difficult. Perhaps it a-] THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor|in circumstances to reveal the pitiful | is this lure that draws him on to com- — | sparseness of the fighting force is likely | plete his round-world fiight with a re- The Evening Star Ne o avow Gk Bifce: T per Company Ave. : Rate by Carrier Within the City. Hfi‘“’"mfl 60c per month Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. 'H,nryhni and Virginia. flmm-um“g 7., $12.00: 1 mo., $1. ::hfid:m i Member of the Associated Press. 1s excl ly entitled “‘Mfif%fi:r%% m.- : e%: e also. ?-‘.‘133.:’. — A Fantastic Proposal. Sentiment among the Governors of States appears to be decidedly adverse to the proposal the Farm that one-third of cotton crop now growing be de- to “avert an eco-~ disaster” in that section. The Board suggested that every third crop be plowed under in p the cotton off the market d thus prevent a drop of prices far low the present extremely low level. It did not undertake, indeed it could not have undertaken, to put such a proposal into effect. Nobody can do that but the cotton growers themselves. Not even the Governors of the States could make the planters destroy one- third of thelr crops. They could only recommend. They might unite in & Joint proclamation, but even so their deliverance would be no more than L g8 there could be no assuredly uniform relinquishment of & portion of the cargoes of bananas were sea and dumped overboard because the 74 31 Bl § g 3 ] £ 1l il! i i | : ¢ ] i ;E s ! _E ; : E 2 at dictation of the destruction of & suffi- quantity or percentage of the crop w.mm.wl in the market? And what of the , the user of cotton, who must pay the higher price be- the destruction of one-third Is he not en- If s0, may him, an FREY [ 2 § i i | al emphasizing a political phase of demonstrations, disorderly Cubans all that is possible to make them- ives known as revolutionists and not ——teatte- . Cubay Revalution Weakened. ‘Although the leader of the Cuban Fevolutionary junta in this country de- clares that the eapture of Gen. Mario chances are that such will be the re- of this latest development in the A Cuban it 5 ¥ | 1] i iy i §i t i i i1 i 2 i bl i“ il i to cause the early collapse of the movement. Yet it does not follow that the Cuban “revolution” is definitely at an end For the conditions breeding it remaini, and as long as they continue there will be unrest and dissent and re- sistance umtil an explosion results, Confessions by Murderers. Michigan’s shocking quadruple mur- der, with the prompt arrest, conviction and sentence to life imprisonment of the three slayers, brings to the point of discussion the question of police inqui- sition after a crime, which has just been brought sharply to the country's at- tention by the Wickersham Crime Com- mission in a“special report. That re- port condemned undue severity of ques- tioning of prisoners by the police, and especially the use of force to compel confessions. In the response to this criticlsm police authorities throughout the country contended that inquisition 15 necessary in the detection of crime and the identification of ériminals. They did not, however, acknowledge that torture is inflicted to coerce pris- oners into avowals of their crimes. That 1s never admitted. To what gegree it ic practiced the public is un: re. Per- haps the “third degree,” which means physical as well as mental torment, is in vogue in most large cities, where crimes are numerous and detection is difficult. * One of the news reports of the Michi- gan case states: “Smith and Black- stone confessed suddenly after they had' denied all day any knowledge of the crime. Then Oliver was found at his job of painter and was arrested. He was it into police headquar- ters & few minutes after the others had confessed and implicated him in the crime, Less than ten minutes later he, too, confessed.” As a result of these confessions all three men were in prison for life within six hours. Just what happened during that day of questioning of Smith and Blackstone will perhaps never be known outside of & very limited circle. The fact that several hours were required to bring the men to the point of confession in- dicates that they were subjected to a ‘where prisoners are grilled in the hope bringing them to the point of ac- knowledgment. Practically sure of their the police persist, trying by re- peated and varying questions to trap into admissions or self-contradic- be held that the most se- , is mot justifiable in such a at Ann Arbor—in practi- where the police are vir- tually assured of the guilt of the men . Another case is in moment. At Colorado ‘was arrested on the ac- daughter for killing her The news report says: “A few later, after intense questioning, for a clergyman. When none found he broke down and fession—1 did it! Now let me rest’” Was not that inquisi- tion, whatever its degree, fully justifi- In many cases prisoners who have confessed at the end of intensive ques- tioning have later repudiated their avowals and contended that they were wrung from them by torture. In one instance of notable local history a pris- oner was released several years after conviction when a higher court set aside his confession on the ground that it was obtained by duress, and there ‘was no chanee of conviction without such an acknowledgment as evidence. ‘That case was woefully mismanaged by the District police. They held the pris- oner incommunicado for a long period and applied to him the most refined short of physical pain that devised. The confession thus ‘was valueless, as the court's eventually proved. It is the primary duty of the police to secure the prisoners’s story, in confession if possible. It is, however, particularly their duty to establish the guilt of the accused person, by means and In terms that will withstand the severest ques- tion of the court, which must protect every defendant from duress on the theory that all are innocent until proved guilty. ——— o ‘The number of men with sense enough weapons are available without identi- fication is practically unlimited. The pistol habit, in that it claims innocent " | vietims, is even worse than the dope habit, which sacrifices only those who take a deliberate risk of seif. Lindbergh in Asia. That Col, Lindbergh and his wife were not trying to make any records when they set out for Asia by the Bering Sea route was definitely under- stood. They went out on a pathfinding : ¢ H ik ’zfi;ifls foe [ turn voyage over the Atlantic after four years. —————— Announcements by the weather man have an impottance that goes beyond that of ordinary earthly affairs. Even a meteor display cannot be a success if, as has been the case this week, he could not break away from his over- worked adjective “cloudy.” S It is the Japanese habit of mind to be serious under all circumstances; which fact makes it harder to explain that the aviators who took photographs of Japanese foftifications were only trying out & new camera and had no prefer- ences as to the subject of the pictures. —————— Rest was the object of Mayor Walker's trip abroad. He will address the world by radio occasionally, assuming that speechmaking, when done well, is done {so easily that it should be classed not as work but as recreation. ————r—— A magnificent theater will cause the public to regard Rockefeller as an art patron. If he can provide prosperous shows for it, Broadway will go still fur- ther in praise and call him an angel. ————————— Bclentists who disagree with Einstein do not make much headway in popular attention, the contradictions being as hard to understand as the original theory. ———— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. An Jdeal. Jes” a little feller, With a welcome an’ & hug, Reckons that his daddy Is about the biggest bug That ever started buzzin' On this pianet here below. An’ T tell you, his opinion Means a heap to them that know. Ain't no politician Nor schemin’ diplomat; Says he loves an’ trusts you An’ lets it go at that. Thinks you'te brave an’ honest; Knows you're good an’ true; Vows there ain't nobody In all the world like you. Jes' o little feller, . ¥ But he somehow gets command; Sort o’ sets you thinkin’ ‘When he takes you by the hand; Helps you on life’s journey, ‘Though the way is rough an’ far; Makes you try again to be ‘The man he thinks you are. ortunity. “How do you regard the latest move- ment in politics?” “It doesn’t cause me any uneasiness,” answered Senator Sorghum. “A po- litical movement is like a train of cars, If you stand in the middle of the track and try to stop it, it will do damage. But it is all right for the man who will walt for it to come alongside so that he can get aboard.” Disappointing Reciprocity. “Did she reciprocate your senti- ments?” “With fsr too much precision. She sent me back all my letters.” A Delicate Enterprise. Strive on, great minds, and do not cease, But, prithee, strive aright. For now and then discussing peace Will start another fight. Fhe Literary Life. “Americans are great readers.” “They have to be. Even the infor- mation expert in the railroad station requires a five-foot book shelf to tell you when the trains arrive.” Retibence of the Genuine. “Do the boys in Crimson Guich shoot on sight the way they used to?" “No,” replied Cactus Joe. “Us des- peradoes are all tamed down. We're afrald to get out in the street and act reckless for fear we'll be mistook for movie actors.” Compensation. Nay, do not despair, though the rose has a thorn, And disdain all its blossoming fair. Nor turn from life’s pleasures with doubting and scorn Because of regrets hidden there, ‘The smart is forgotten and past in a day Too oft must we suffer with naught to repay. It is well when the thorn has a rose. “Sometimes de man dat keeps a seein’ how big he kin talk,” said Uncle Eben, “seems ter be jes' ez industrious in seein’ how little he kin act.” — Ending the Ice Hazard. From the Des Molnes Tribune-Capital. Scientists at Cornell University have reported that heat generated by air- plane engines is sufficient, if properly used, to prevent ice formation on the ‘wings of planes. ‘They have come to this definite eon- V| clusion after elaborate tests made on models in a laboratory equipped by the Guggenheim Fund for the purpose of such tests It should be remembered that no great amount of heat is required, for ice only fofms on wings at a certain temperature that is just above the freezing point. In much colder weather ;| there is no unfrozen ik ! 5 "Mid the joy that the flowers disclose, | STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, F SATURDAY, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. More letters are written on vacgtion than at any other time of the year. Many a person who finds it difficult to empty a fountain pen at home uses up & whole bottle full of ink in two weeks at the shore. Men whose correspondence has ended with & curt “Yours truly” begin to dis- cover that “Lovingly yours” and “Affec- tionately yours” have their uses. No doubt this strange change is brought about in the main by two things—the effect of absence and & sur~ plus of time on one’s hands. Why time, the most elusive quantity (or quality) in the world, should be said to be “on the hands” is difficult to explain. Perhaps it comes about because man is supposed to have risen from the posi- tion of the beasts to that of man as the result of using his hands in combina- tion with his brain. Dexterity has played such s major part in man's rise to the upright posi- tion that mankind may be said almost to go on its hands rather than on its feet. ‘Time, then, is strictly on one’s hands on vacation. That is why they are so largely used in writing letters. * kX % Hotel corridors in which writing desks are the principal furniture are always crowded, as every one knows who has wanted to write & letter about 10 a.m. or 4 pm. ‘Those are the k points in most Summer hotels. n writing rooms are crowded, mostly by women. That sex remains the greatest letter writer. There are few things around a sea- side or mountain Summer resort which a woman won't see and none of them which she is not able to recall in time to put into a letter to the folks back home, ‘The feminine memory is amazing when applied to letter writing. Every detall of costume, time and place will be reproduced faithfully. Details which even the greatest stickler for accuracy would regard as unimportant are given full place in these Summertime epistles. ‘The newness of the surroundings no doubt has much to do with it. First impressions often are strongest, and these when turned into ink strokes on white paper become the affairs of the moment. o A Thus the fact that Tommie was knocked over by his first encounter with the breakers becomes of far greater im- portance in the home letter than all the statescraft of all the great nations of the world. Their sense of proportion is just.| ‘Tommie's fright is of greater impor- tance in the family councils. France's fear of Germany is, after all, largely academic, but Tom's friendship with the wild waves is necessary if he is to enjoy his stay at the beach, Family mwnmn. however, are far from the only themes incorporated in letters from vacationists. A certain number of them must be credited to the hr;’fln: instincts of mankind. ere perhaps never was a soul who ever went away for the Summer who did not find it necessary to send at least a post card to a few people back in the cw as a pleasant reminder that frie: ip existed between them. Down at bottom, however, there was the desire to let all and sundry know that one was able to go away for the Summer, * ok x ‘The loving letter is one of the most interesting _to come from far-away places on shore and mountain, mnmmnu makes the heart grow fonder, deed. Young men who paid no more than & ng notice to Mary back home sud- denly find themselves writing the most astounding nonsense to her. | After the morning swim, before din- | ner is ready, there is plenty of time to kill, and this almost always is utilized by the boys in writing to Mary. ‘Those who formerly found it difficult |to achieve as much as one sheet of paper now discover that they must make several trips back to the desk for more sheets of writing paper. ‘The charms of a certain Millicent, too, are largely incorporated. Horace believes, with the craft of youth in such matters, that if Millicent is “played up” Mary-back-home will become | jealous. | Nothing quite equals the green-eyed *monster—to wit, jealousy—Horace has read somewhere, for stirring the other sex to reciprocal attachment. By telling how he met Millicent, what sort of a thi.n*1 sult she wears, the color of her hair, her eyes, Horace man- ages to implant in the heart of Mary a certain portion of jealousy. Every time he writes Mary—and he does s0 at least once a day—he deftly managed to bring the beautiful Milli- cent on the scene, if for no more than a feeting glimpse. “Met Millie"—yes, she is Millie now— “on the beach last night at the marsh- mallow roast. Quite a crowd of we boys and girls"—Horace never was much on grammar—gathered drift- wood and bought some marshmallows and roasted them. We had a lot of fun, but the marshmallows turned out to be chocolate covered, and they dripped when they were roasted, but we ate them just the same.” * X o % -at-home, who already has had several dates with Johnnie, thinks Hor- | ace is sillier than ever, but fortunately | Horace doesn't know that. He keeps on writing Mary until Millie packs up her lavender bathing suit and Teturns to Baltimore. Now, there are some mighty pretty ls in Baltimore, and Millicent Jones No pooner does ahe leave th o gooner does she leave the seaside a.m,“?.’,nom by much hand waving from Horace, than mrefl:tkr feels the poetic urge come over him. He immediately returns to the hotel, seizes a secluded chair and desk in the writing room, and draws toward him a sheet of paper. Upon this fair blank, something tells him, will presently ear an ode—ah, nothing less!—to the “Departing Venus.” * X % * Vacation letters are filled with re- quests for money, bits of clothing and novels. Every one loves to read at shore gQr mountain, no matter how fond of athletic sports. Nothing gives one more Presfige at the shore n the possession the very latest book. Those fortunate per- sons who now flaunt Willa Cather's “Shadows on the Rock” are envied of all the large ladies who rock back and forth in the comfortable rockers. If one is so unsuspicious of mankind as to lay the book down on a table while at dinner, he will be rudely awak- ened to the iniquities of his species when he returns, for “Shadows on the Rock” | will be gone. Just before he returns to the city, if he has hinted enough, he will find the book lying on the same table, a little the worse for wear, with incriminating chocolate smudges on some of the pnfu, but largely intact. Next to writing let- ters, every one on reading on ‘vacation. Public Finds Truth in Report Attacking General agreement with the Wicker- sham report criticizsing police adminis- tration in various American cities and showing the evils of the “third degree” is voiced by the public. It is stated that the facts set forth are widely known, and that one of the chief difficulties in the way of finding a remedy is the alliance between police departments and politics. “Some time true reform in policing must come,” declares the Pasadena Star-News, “or the American people will demonstrate in a tragically in- glorious manner that they are incompe- tent to govern themselves as & democ- racy.” ‘The Baltimore Sun believes that “such brutalities as described violate fundamental rights and fundamental human feelings, the nd negation of ordinary human rights vith the very worst of the offenders with whog mez: deal,” and “encourages one lous of many of the ‘confes- sions’ and convictions obtained.” Believing that ‘“‘unquestionably the commission has hit upon one of the Wi responsible for metropolitan crime waves,” and that “inefficient po- lice forces in large communities leave soclety almost helpless in the hands of criminal elements,” the Ann Arbor Daily News feels that itics has something to_do with it.” continues: “There &re other causes. One is cumbersome laws, burdened with technicalities that permit criminals to | escape justice, particularly when crimi- nals are sufficiently endowed with the world's goods to hire clever and un- scrupulous lawyers. The police are al- ways running against technicalities which are obstacles to arrest and pun- ishment of outlaws. There are corrupt police, but likewise there are honest police and laws difficult to enforce.” * x * *x ‘The average member of a large force, in the idgment of the Lexington Leader, “is unable to do what he knows should be done in a thorough and im- partial manner, because he is controlled by a machine which is allied in one way or another with crookedness and crimi- nality.” ‘The Providence Journal con- tends, however, that *“ been quick to employ every new device and method useful to them and the police slow to develop the means of retaliation.” That paper adds: “The blame for lagging behind in the new, swift race against modern crime cannot be laid wholly at the door of the police. ‘The old ideas as to how society should | be protected—the dogma of police work, handed down for generations—must be revised in the minds of citizens and municipal legislative bodies,” ss well as in the minds of the police themselves, betore a fully effective change can be ‘wrought. 3 police, gran them honesty and sincerity, do what ey can with the money allotted for work. and with the freedom that they are “Observers are unanimous in charg- ing prohibition with responsibility for more vice and graft than has ever been country,” avers the the You: il have Police Methods armwm’l freedom to act fearlessly may considerably curtailed. Where the in control of the police are “the efficiency and morale of | the department are at the merc; | worst influences. Citles poin out by the commission as having aggravated | conditions of nat- | urally turn to favored Milwaukee. And | they will find, as did the commission, | that there the chief of police is entirely | removed from political control.” | “A valuable service,” | burgh Post-Gazette, “can be rendered if | the conditions it has found are not | merely exposed, but & follow-up program planned with the backing of the admin- istration. There is no phase of the | secondary reports on which public opin- jon can be more rea enlisted for | Taxis and Virginia Cars | Should Be Treated Mike | To_the Editor of The Star: | Washington suburbanites who lve 'AUGUST 15, 1931. THE LIBRARY TABLE By the Booklover of the sensationalist repre- sentatives of a self-made religion in the Unffed States did Sheila Kaye-Smith takie as her model for her new heroine, Susan Spray, in her recent novel of the same name? Or has England some of the same kind of inspired fanatic-hypo- crites as our own country prodices? “Susan Spray” is “the history of Susan Spray, the female preacher,” born at Copthorne, on the Surrey and Sussex borders, in 1834, the daughter of a poverty-stricken farm laborer and his over-prolific wife. Susan was the first child of her parents, and ber advent was a novelty and received a welcome not accorded to later offspring. Her mother dressed her in littie pink and bilue calico dresses and called her “My Lady,” ex- pecting for her a great future, far above that of the class into which she was born. But before Susan had achieved the success, both worldly and spiritual, which was to be hers both parents had succumbed to the "lumnd arrows of outrageous fortune,” el ly the desti- tution among the lower classes in Eng- land caused by the corn laws. Ruth Spray lay down and died of starvation ‘\gxen the eighth child was born, without much regret on her own part or that of any one else. Every one was t0o hungry to mourn deeply the removal of one mouth which consumed its share of the turnip soup and thin flour that constituted the whole of the f supply. Spray’s body was found by his daughter, Susan, in some ditch bushes between ne and Horsham. He had been conducting a migration of his fs of six remaining children, with all ir fons, in a crude, homemade cart to new territory, where he hoped to find help from the Colgate Brethren, the sect to which he belonged. > xxx ‘With the death of her father, Susan Spray at 13 began her career. She had already, had visions of Hur Colgate, the founder of their religion, and of Ezekiel's temple, and now “she seemed to see her ?n life, with her father and mother in 1t, rolling up like a scroll and Aying y over treetops behind her. ‘She alone in a free world, without father or mother. She seemed to be beginning life over again.” The common lot of woman, which meant to her and frequent child-bearing, had repugnant to Susan from early child- hood when she had begun to observe her mother’'s discontent and misery. Soon after her death Adam |Cerma been | G, sure to inquiry briefly, and inclose 2-cent for reply postage. Address The ning Star Information Bureau, J. Haskin director, Washington, strokes did Burke and_Von should the dumm the table bgore t A. No_cards should be exposed until the first lead has been made. Q. To what oceans does the phrase “the four seas” refer?—N. O. J. oceans—the Arctic, Antarctic, North Pacific, South Pacific, North Atlantic, South Atlantic and Indian. Q. How did the German republic get under_way?—M. G. A. The abdication of the of was unnnmmeed November :‘ It met at Weimar February 6, 1919, and elected Priedrich Ebert president of the republic on February 11. The National ?s:;mfly adopted a constitution July 31, fl.whnuthelpeedoftmnew “rail Zeppelin” in Germany?—8. D. A. On one trial it attained a speed of | [, 143.15 miles an hour. . How many lepers are there in the Philippines?—B. V. F. A. It is estimated that there are at present about 200,000. Q. How many people are employed doing work for cfi"' ?—A. 'A. " All forms of government—PFederal, unic; She had determined not to marry, and B intended to be a “prophet.” Her sister, | been made Tamar, an example of the eternal femi- nine, jeered at her and said: “A wom- an’s nought except to be a man’s wife.” Susan replied, “I'll never be qhmn's wife.” Yet in the course of her history, as told by Sheila Kaye-Smith, she was wife to three men before she had reached middle age. Susan Spray be- came Susan Strudwick, then Susan Clarabut, then Susan Pell. Her first husband was a farm laborer of the more prosperous sort, ditcher, thatcher, hop- dryer; her second was the black sheep of a respectable clerical family, who should have served a prison sentence but esca) influ"en:: come rich through thrift and hard work. ‘They represent an mate based on careful consideration the activities of the Various kinds government. The actual vary somewhat from the they will Himber than 2500000, Sanilc Her first husband she loved affection- | detects the slight ately because of his to her; her second she loved with brief infatuation because of the dashing personality and upper-class connection; her third she loved not at all, but married because of his power to advance her ambition to the founder and prophet of a new religion. * ko K Not one of her husbands was allowed to interfere with Susan Spray’s ambi- tlon. As the wife of Strudwick she grumhed on Sundays before the Colgate hren in the barn of H?h Hurst Wood, where she had been a farm girl. The scorn and mockery of Clarabut to- ward her calling caused her temporarily tion. Her m:t\"; commy the irehites. story, as far as Sheila Kaye-Smith tells it, closes with her possessions of Hayes Farm, pur- chased by her new husband; the estab- set up by two metals in the mouth. S B ey Sy who came days have to serve?—D. 8. e A. The contracts varied. They were for four, five and seven years. At the of of ‘may . It show a larger the specified SseoEe o 2 :]I.flfl'",w‘. It was opened in !nefi""' thick Is the earth's erust?— ‘A ‘The thickness of the earths erust has been variously computed to be 10, 20 or more miles. Observations on B ) Sgg i ! o >3 Qw Eof H ] =3 8 g 1 o Pt 335 ZRiRd: Q.’B"Nthllukhulflnnd'— A About three long, maximum, andtwo miles wile e Q. When was the Million-Dollar mmwuhmnc..-—nn Howard Taft Bridge?—T. C. 'd to William Howard Taft Bridge 3 y soft while 1 el 2 tundm:renwh i sl etk sels i 5586 ; b j f ¥ L ¥ i »! 2 of the U. cent of the g 4] 183 area. Highlights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands lightning-stroke thousands measles and tens of lishment there of a dozen families of [ mo followers, the nucleus of her tion; and her first Sunday in the great | and barn, which she has transformed into a church, when she 'ars before a |in Virginia and used the depot at|Then, erect | Twelfth street and Pennsylvania ave- nue have been refused permission for cars to cross Pennsylvania avenue at Fourteenth street to reach a new pro- posed depot above the Avenue. It | seems strange that this commission en- | deavors to regulate necessary street car | traffic and allows the city to be crowd- jed with vacant taxicabs seeking pas- sengers, when these railroads inter- | ested handled 4,000,000 passengers dur- | ing the past year. If they have control | over both modes of transportation, why do they not put a needed checkrein on some of the many taxicabs? Of course, the Virginia roads have & depot at Rosslyn, Va., fed by a line of the Capi- tal Traction Railroad Co. over the Key Bridge. This fact may have some bear- ing on the case, as the Capital Trace | tion and fts many stockholders are evi- | dently more interested in the financ | welfare of their road than in the con- | venience or inconvenience of the farm- ers and suburbanites who may be required to make trips to the National Capital and land in a convenient spot. | Of course, I do not know who these traction stockholders are, but they evi- | dently are of that important |article in this city known as “pull,” | without which even individuals have {been known to fail to get what they reached for. H. T. McOONVEY. | A Noble Experiment. |Prom the Chattanocoga News. | _ Editor Prank J. d of | Blakesburg (Iowa) Weekly Excelsior has | become weary of running free adv |ments and has posted a new | prices. He opens his announcement with the statement that “here you will find le of | tion will be made, but we hope to do- nate a certain percentage of our earn- ings toward founding an asylum for those feeble-minded people who believe the editor has a soft snap. For telling Excelsior readers that a man “is & successful citizen when every- body knows that he is as lazy the | statesman. Apple “Joanna Godden,” after dh t'dummuw!‘: h:xun Spra; wha A " y’ falls short of “Sussex Gorse,” that novel of Titanic soil-mania, it is no cause for serious criticism. Few authors are ca- pable of twice producing a really great novel, * x % x ‘The owner of but a small plot of sround who yet craves a garden will ‘Perennial i H. Stuart Ortloff, frequent contributor of articles to garden magazines. There are in this book many plans dens of different sizes and belonging to owners of different tastes. Lists of per- ennials with regard to their blooming time also are given, so that the appear- ance of the garden in Spring, Summer and Autumn may give the maximum of leasure. If Mr. Ortloft's advice is fol- lowed, there will be no dead in the garden exc in Midwinter, and ti of magentas and scarlets and oranges in the blooms in a way to cause pain to sensitive minds and eyes. * x % % Jefferson was too many-sided to be a subject for full treatment in a single b y. There should nl.uymlbe a niversity lates, schedule of prices, from which no devia- - in his time and found his . The Tudor Georgia: styles he repudiated, as he did the dom- ination of nd in government. * x X X will be no clashing | migh E | B il 3 | 3 8 f i i g. g : 35 | f g 5 : 3 g Ea # i Fq gi 85 g s§ 5 i i : 4 il i 2 @ erson has ‘Monti- | s =!‘ E & ] ELE § LH ud g i els fadh FEaES i 5k ie;&i § i !i; a : i f B i i : . i H f B i