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~A6 THE EVENING: THE EVENING STAR |murder of a woman and her three chil- f owing to the unsatistactory conditions ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY.....August 20, 1931 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Ne Xl(‘ St. .fie. nl‘”cvel New York : 110 East 3 o e Company n. ening Star 48¢ per month e < Evening and Sur rders may be semt in by mail of telephone s may frifonal 006 FH; g 1y, u;.w: 1mo. ony . . inday only £ e Rate by Carrier Within the City. o s Bubd Tk:l' lays) .. Bb‘e per mn:fl; T eetian mads at the eid of ‘onch monih ‘Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. 1 RE IR B All Other States and Canada. ing Member of the Associated Press. e Associated Press is exclusively ertitied e ‘use for republication of all news dis- atches credited fo it or not otherwise cred- ted in this paper and aiso the ocal news vublished herein. Al riehts of Hu) t pecial 1ispatches herein are Liso The Two Governors. The Governors of fwo great States have outlined their plans for dealing with the unemployment crisis this Win- ter, It is interesting to compare the plan of Democratic Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York with the ‘plan of Progressive Gov. Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania. Gov. Roosevelt, addressing the Legis- lature, declares that “it is idle for us to speculate upon actions which may be taken by the Federal Government, just as it is for the purpose for which we are here gathered to speculate about the causes of national depression. It is true that times may get better: it is true that the Federal Government may take action to eradicate some of the basic causes of our present troubles; it is true that the Federal Government may come forward with a definite con- struction program on a truly large scale; it is true that the Federal Gov- ernment may adopt a well thought out, concrete policy that will start the ‘wheels of industry moving and give the farmer at least the cost of making his crop. The State of New York cannot wait for that. I face and you face and thirteen million people face the problem of providing immediate relief.” And to provide that relief the Gov- ernor asks the Legislature to increase, by fifty per cent, the State tax on per- sonal incomes, to yvield an estimated total of $20,000,000, this sum to be ap- has done all that it can do. The Fed- eral Government must do the rest. ‘Which of the plans is the most prac- he wmmnhnmm| cure by summoning into extraordinary the Congress of the United But when the States and the com- munities as & whole follow the ex- .ample set by Roosevelt, and many of Jthem have even anticipated i, the Pederal Government will at least be| free to adopt some of those steps that the Governor of New York, with his tongue in his cheek, suggests as and when” possibilities. Gov. Roosevelt. disclanns the adop- | tion, for the State of New York, of the “dole,” and while there are many who will reach for a magnifying glass in an attempt to discern the difference | between what he advocates and a State | “dole,” his own explanation is simpie| enough. The State funds are to be| used, not to supplant, but to supple- ment funds raised by the various communities, and in all cases State funds are to be devoted to supplying wark for the unemploved. When such work is impossible the money will be used, under careful supervision, for the purchase of clothing, food and the provision of shelter for the helpless ‘There is to be no cash grant. There is no committal, by the State, to a pro- gram that will encourage dependence | upon the charity of the State. This | # an emergency, and it is frani and specifically dealt with as such ———— Owing to ill health, Mayor Jimmy Walker is compelled to be abroad,| where the only shots he has to face are eamera snapshots. - Human Monsters. Every now and then a crimimal “monster” develops, a person who for gain does murder by wholesale, & fiend of rapacity and cruelty. In the history of crime are many such cases, here and in Europe. Just now there are two in- stances of this form of diabolism which, though still under investigation, are practically established in fact. One of these is in Detroit, where a Hungarian immigrant woman, keeper of a working- men’s rooming house, is accused of causing the death of ten men for their insurance. These deaths spread over a period of eight years. It may be impos- creature made a business of her house, plying them getting them insured for and then, by some means definitely made clear, putting to death. dren, who disappeared two months ago. The bodies have just been found in the cellar of a garage at his residence. It would appear that this man con- ducted correspendence through matri- monial agencies—which are much used by criminals for their evil purposes. There is a suspicion that other crimes have been committed by him. Some years ago a “death farm” was maintained in one of the Middle West- ern States by & woman to whose charge was eventually laid the murder of a dozen or so men, who were drawn into her colls by matrimonial advertisements. This was a particularly fiendish per- formance. A little later there was the case of Landru in France, much the same gort of criminal enterprise though the sexes were reversed. Landru's full toll of death was never revealed. Then & similar case developed in Germany, where a multiple murderer carried on his ghastly trade for several years be- fore detected. Hungary also furnished an instance some time ago, uncounted victims having been taken there. ‘The money motive is present in prac- tically all of these cases. That was the motive in the case of the woman who conducted the “baby farm” in this country, where an undetermined num- ber of infants were put to death. Avarice becomes an overmastering im- pulse when an unmoral person takes the first step in dealing with life as an article of commerc e John Bull Borrows Millions. Immediately upon the reorganization of the British ministry, dedicated to the task of effecting drastic economies in the national expenditures and approxi- mating a balancing of the budget, an enormous credi-has been extended to the British treasury by American and French bankers. This is one of the largest loans ever made in world his- tory. It is designed to stabilize the pound sterling, which has been seriously depreciated of late by an outflow of gold from London to maintain the trade credit of the country. The Amer- ican share of the credit is to be borne by a group of bankers: The French portion will be divided between the bankers and the public, one-half of the French allotment being offered to the people as an investment, The rapidity with which this ar- rangement was made—less than thirty- six hours after the announcement that the ministry at London had been re- organized—is in itself & factor for the re-establishment of It is assumed that the mm-m by the bankers of America and France will be made. This means that the dole that has been paid in Great Britain to the unemployed since the war ended will be curtailed. This in turn means 2 material reaction upon the political situation in Great Britain. Just what its future effect will be cannot be fore- told. The point of importance is that the condition required by the advancers of gold credit has been met, without regard to the political effect of the economies. This speedy rescue of the British treasury from grave embarrassment is the second instance within a very brief period of international action to pre- vent fscal strain becoming dangerous to the public security and to the friendly relations of governments. The German reparations moratorium was an un- precedented action. The loan of four hundred million dollars to Great Britain was the second instance, not of itself extraordinary, but exceptional in the the occasion for its necessity, was un- usual—a matter of domestic economic policy bringing other nations to the Tescue. It is none of the business of the United States or of France whether Great Britain maintains its unemployed with a dole or not. That is strictly a matter of domestic policy. It is incon- ceivable that the dole pald in Great Britain should ever become a factor in the direct relations of the government sum involved. The cguse of the lmn,! that prevail there, conditions that will be corrected in the new District judicial establishment. The fact that the man who escaped yesterday was, after all, hot under requisition from Louisiana is of no consequence in this con- nection. The point is that whether through bungling or lack of knowledge of good police technique men are getting away. The policeman who allows a prisoner to escape, whatever the con- ditions, should be seriously demerited. vt Entertainers are always generous in contributing their talents in philan- thropic emergencies. The extraordinry gifts in the way of popular amusement that motion pictures and radio have developed insure liberal responses from these sources, both in time and money, in a drive for the benefit of the un- employed. P Y e, Decision by “Coin” Harvey to run for the presidency on a platform advo- cating monetary revision, Government ownership and a moratorium for pri- vate debts would reflect a little of the excitement of some of W. J. Bryan's campaigns if Harvey, in addition to being a silver statistician, were a silver- tongued orator. ‘When Mussolini visits the Pope of Rome it will probably be said, truth- fully enough, that there was no discus- sion of politics. The visit itself will be sufficiently significant without any at- tempt to add words to the occasion. ————————— A man of 78 years, Hall Caine is under the care of physicians in London. His literary productions are said to have | made nim a mulionaire; which fact | helps toward “recovery, in making life | well worth living. Stalin was interviewed at length by G. Bernard Shaw and Lady Astor. No | inquisitive caller has yet tried to get a close-up opinion from Stalin as to what he thought of the interview, — e Effort is being constantly made to impress the fact that in order to bandle campaign funds successfully a man must be an expert bookkeeper as well as an astute politician. —————— ! An earthquake rattled the dishes| while Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh were a' | breakfast in Tokio. Only the dishes. | Lindbergh himself never gets rattled. e oo As an eminent mathematician Ein- stein has not yet gratified German financiers by showing how to square a vicious circle of debts. —— - Police officers should study gang men 2s & matter of duty, but not so closely | es to acquire their habits of cruelty. ———————————— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Youngster. Of course, he's not at all to blame, ‘This youngster that I know, But I resent him, just the same, And long to tell him so. Though frank his smile and clear his eye, I glance into the past, | And see him as in days gone by— That boy is growing fast! I knew him when he couldn't walk. When his relations heard His first attempts at human talk | What wonderment was stirred! | His qualities bid fair to make A future bright and vast. And yet I feel it's a mistake For him to grow so fast. ©Oh, why should he not linger there, As I would fain have done, Where youth is ever gay and fair And life seems only fun? Why should his face seem strangely grave, ‘With thoughtfulness o'ercast? Why won't that busy youth behave, And not grow up so fast? at London and those of America and Prance. But when Great Britain asks | for credits, the prospective lenders have | a right 1o demand that the security be | made sound, through a balancing of the | books, and if thet can be effected only through the curtaliment of the dole, | then this step must b2 taken, be the | political consequences what they may. “Have you outlined your poliey to your constituents?” “No,” replied Senator Sorghum: “I{ am still looking over the policies my constituents have outlined to me, trying to decide on which I had better select.” | The man who wants all the best of | every bargain cheats himself of future Charges of police brutality open up | CPPOTtunities a new field for the psychoanalyst. Be- | fore appointing & man as an officer an | examination might be held with a view attic to ascertaining whether, through hered- | sti) waiting for fortune to drop, ity or environment, he has developed | who has felt the full force of that dole- the abnormal mind that delights in ! ful remark, cruelty. “There always is room at the top.” ———atee- - | It is not always easy to find Capone Though & man of wealth, he is often | compelled to forsake magnificent resi- dences for some humble and obscure hideout. i PN D Escaping Prisoners, Perhaps because of “nervousness in- | duced by the recent disclosures of “third degree” doings in the precinct | who has an ax to grind is not to drop station houses and the investigation | i OP your foot after you have helped that has been started into this and |0 sharpen it. other matters of police conduct, mem. A Runner. bers of the force have during the past | If T should run fur office I should git so few days fumbled their jobs in the prac- dreadful scared tice of handling prisoners. On Thurs- |I know that I'd furgit the various day & man who had been taken in a | speeches I prepared. business establishment on a charge of ‘ An' when they got to callin’ names the forgery, by detectives who had been| whole affair I'd drop waiting for him several hours, broke |I'd jes' start in a-runnin’ an’ I'd run loose as he was being put into a vehicle | an' never stop. for transportation to headquarters, and, | =i #0 far as known, has not been seen | “De truth is mighty® said Uncle since. Again yesterday a man who had | Eben. “Even a lie, to be successful, has been broadcast as wanted by the police | to have some truth sprinkled through of Baton Rouge, La., was taken into |it.” custody, and while being transferred | in & patrol wagon from headquarters | to & precinct station cell he broke loose | from custody after battling with a po- liceman and vanished. It is of no mo- ment that the Louisana reque:t for his | arrest had been canceled, wichout noti- fication to the Detective Bureau. A short time ago a prisoner brokc | away from a boliceman who was taking him to a station house and fled into & house from which he eventually es- caped, the policeman in pursuit leap- ing from a window and breaking his 'u(v In this case the escape was duc | to the fact that the man had not been | handcuffed, whereupon orders were is- | sued that hereafter all prisgners should be so secured in transit h the The Top of the House. | "Tis the young man who dwells In the Slnl';y Test. ma: “An honest man,” replied Mr. Cum- rox, “is one Who likes the same music in private that he says he likes when | his wife is giving a musicale.” ‘The most you can ask of the man | | gl . Diccipline. From the South Bend Tribune. France proposes a “world army” 1o | enforce the League of Nations orders. Now somebody may proj another army to make the “world army” hl ———————————— Cash Before Delivery. From the Altoons Mirror. An Arkansas jury refused to return a verdict before receiving its fees. might say that justice not only is not | blind but has excellent foresight. —— e w Canny. Prom the San Antonio Express. “Poet makes money.” He's a Scottish poet, too—but income is from lec- m in the United States. Poor Burns lived too scon! s At the same time Clarksburg, W. Va., an atrocity that is even more , because of the fact that chil- were the victims as well as an A man is under arest for the streets. It 38 hard enough to catch “wanted" men without letting them go free before they are tried. Every little while & prisoner walks out of the Police Court The Price of Credit. From the Ashiand (Kv.) Daily dndependens. cent of those Who buy on “What's your idea of an hflnest.l You | gir] ‘Ten per b el Bt e ok dae e e STAR; WASHINGTON, N. C; SATURDAY UGUST 29, 1931 A ’ ‘ — e BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Sneering, one may think-sometfm is not sppreciated at its full value. It is customary to sneer at sneering, as if there were something fundamental- 1y reprehensible in it, when the trouble lies mostly in misplaced sneers. Common sense and discreticn are as necessary here as elsewhere. » Sneering without malice is one thing, and sneering with mean intentions an- other. The qualified, expert sneerer sneers at conditions and circumstances, not at peérsons or personalities. Gocd manners are escential ¥ L 1f one is courteous in his sheering he may work wonders with it. After all, a sneer is irony in action, | that is all, Is thers anything so terrible about that? ny! t masterpieces have been created in_thy name! When the average human being re- sorts—or retorts—to irony, it is Ikely to be pretty clumsy. Nevertheless, it hits the mark. Sometimes it hits it all too well, that is when the unbiased observer sees that courtesy is as necessary in sneering as at a dinner party. * kR % I i'lou want to put a person down, as the phrase is, to put them “out of coun- tenance,” as it were, a good healthy sneer is perhaps the very best method of approach. The righteous man will not permit himself to be taken down, or put out of ccuntenance, 5o easily as all that. He will be “as bold as a llon,” according to_the proverb. But ths person who deserves all ths! can be handed him is marked for the attack, and no doubt deserves all that he gets, Even with such a fellow, the expert | will confine his good sneers to condi- tions which may have been created by the man, and will mainly refrain from sneering directly at him. * ok ow % Bad sneering is that which tends to take away a person's reputation and happiness. It is this type which has given the sneer its bad reputation. Consider the word itself. It comes from the middle English, “sneren,” to deride, which in turn is derived from the Danish “snaerre,” to grin like a dog, | Snarl is a related word. ‘When a dog snerls, he does what in a human being would be called a sneer- ing grin, There can be pleasant grins and un- pzeflnnt grins, good smiles and evil miles. Similarly, there are good snesrs and bad sneers, pleasant sneerers ard un- | pleasant ones, * ok kX To ~ discriminate properly between these types is to learn ome of the les- sons of life. In business, the man who can be satisfled with what he has, without too much reference to what his associate has, is on the high road to as much | bappiness as this world allows any man. It is much the same with sneerers | and sneering. He who can instantly see the dif- ference between the good sort and the bad sort is able to keep his mental equilibrium when lesser men fail. The fest must be whether the sneerer confines his remarks t> conditions and circumstances, not persons or per- sonalities. There is the dividing line, over which ?:L] gven the greatest may step without ult. He who sneers with proper discre- | but ults how tion may live to sneer another day, he who insists on snarling at the“f’l and merits of others, no matter much justified, is on a dangerous road, uhlglcugh it may look rose-strewn to * ok % % Some one may object that what we advocate is not sneering at all, but sim- ly a humorous twist which sees the absurdity even in solemn matters, ‘This will hot do. Sneering is sneer. ing, and no one need be ashamed of in it in a proper manner. Like most matters under broad heaven, it may be done properly or improper; It one is kindly by nature, he may sneer with impunity, safe in the as- surance that his inner qualities of grace, umemuy,wmwwmm through safely. The person who knows that his (or her) w‘r;gue is rather sharp had bet- ter hesttate before resorting to the | precious weapon of the effective sneer. Sneer, not snarl. Grin, but let it be of the freckle- ;nced yul‘lré!!hr type, not of the bared- variety. Ard Vg ok ow A sneer shows a healthy, lingering | doubt in the user’s mind as to some | aspect of the subject under discussion, | which ought to be, according to our | thesis, some condition or circumstance arising out of life. The doubting mind alone can sneer. | Now doubt is the great temptation of | temptation. Many oldtime theologians ithousht doubt to be the devil himself. ‘When they doubted, they fancied them- selves in the very clutches of the w};na 't personalit; lived with. o grea ality ever lived with- out.doubts. The eonfessions of mankind are filled with this wrestling of the spirit. He who never doubts, or at lenst mever had doubted, is a spiritual sluggard, one with swine that know no_beauty. A pig never dreams and a fool never doubts. The doubter finds a sneer a safety value, which, were it not used now and then, might, in the end, cause a much worse explosion in some other part of the machinery, * k¥ % | The sneer, in- countenance, or in words, is the irony of those who belong | to, or think they ought to belong to, | an_inner circle. It is typified, in one direction, by the automobile horn which blasts one out of the road with an almost human | sound of contempt. But such a horn is not aimed to inflict pain, but is a sort of self-justification, and the doer | is more interested in himself than any one else. His victim, if there is such, is only accidental. | Any one who sneers, either in the {good way or the bad way, aspires to a | seclusiveness of some sort. His snarl | may be no more unpleasant than a | bright grin, attended with a few words probing some fallacy to the bottom, exposing hypocrisy, and the like. But }in’ his heart he feels.that he is just A little bit clever to be able to see through the humbug. | _ Now surely this foible of his will | hurt no one, and it may do him a great | deal of good. It is amazing the amount | of food some people can get out of little things. The poet Wordsworth wrote a famous poem from seeing a primrose |on a river's brink, where it was ad- | mitted most human beings _ either | would have overlooked it altogether, or | at most would have seen only a prim- | rose. * o ox | . The poet indulged himself in the | luxury of the sneer gentle, when, in his few celebrated lines, he intimated | as much to the world at large, and that | it took him, a true poet, with a poet's | mind and sensitiveness to beauty, to be | able to extract a real thought from the | situation. | Surely, it was the perfect sneer. { Most of us, not being poets, or | genluses, will not be able to achieve | this perfection. Most of us must be content with the imperfect, which will envious, distraught, to put upon attempts interpretations which we unoum'gl’em ink’lnded. penalty we must pay for | attempting, * He who overcometh s i still a mighty man, and this must be | our overcoming, aithough some may \say it is a shortcoming. | others, | our I by I‘].Igl].llgl‘lti on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands HE EVENING TIMES, Glasgow.— A lock of Nelson's hair to be sold at auction in London in likely to provoke a fair amount of bidding, for, of all such relics, those of the great admiral command the highest prices. A wisp of his hair sold some years 2go realized no less than $1,575, or $300 more than the highest for a similar memento oerpo!eon. and higher than the highest bid o record ].'orka sample of Wellington's grizzled locks. The vagaries of the hair relic mar- ket are curious. One of Byron's curls sold not long since for $65, and a lock of Goldsmith's brought $50, which would have been a Godsend to the owner in his lifetime, but clippings of Sir Walter Scott'’s fine thatch have never risen above $40 in the open market. *xox o Lecturer Holds U. S. Education Standards Low. Manchester Guardian.—Mr. Ernest Young, the B. B. C. lecturer to schools, declared at & meeting of the Middlesex County Head Teachers’ Association the Guildhall, Westminster, that so far as education was goncerned England had nothing to fearn from “I think the standard of in America is deplorably he said. “Any elementary pupil in Middlesex could get a degree in en American university in thre: months, and there is hardly a B. A. in America who could pass the matriculation. “If I were the minister of labor,” pro- ceeded Mr. Young, “I would concen- trate for th: next five years in trying to bring about Mr, Bernard Shaw's ideal education. Mr. Shaw has said that the only three things a child needed to learn were how to get off a movin, way about in Bradshaw, and so to be- have like a duchess when you went to Brighton that everybody thought you were a duchess.” Mr. Young said that there were three things which made for material success in life—mind, morals and manners—and of these three he puts manners first at the start of a boy’s career. * ok ox ¥ France and Belgium War Over Beauty’s Nationality. Le Soir, Brussels—Ouf! It makes us gasp! War between France and Bel- gium—apropos the Hoover note—is quite possible—even probable! As to the cause assigned, some will say, as ican proposal; reserve; still others, the very thought of sus. pending German reparation payments, which will bring to the Bel? an ex- chequer a deficit of 40,000,000 francs. But none of these will really be the 3 is something far more seri- ous and important than any of these considerations. It is a matter of birthe rights and traditions. We have another subject of disquietude between our two countries. The Petit Parisien has de- clared that Miss Universe is a French and not a Belgian. We indignantly repudiate to the echo this unwarranted sssumption. And why not, when M. Duchateau, who claims to be the father of the preity young woman crowned at Galveston, writes us thus: ‘e" t is not strange that Mlle. Ducha- au, 4 many foreign my daughter, who ha: me on visits to countries, and who lately conquered all the other claimants to feminine beauty by winning the title ‘Miss Universe, should be Mu;’ :; th; nationality &l whatever coun! e hap) to o For all of that, ou ongest ctey was in the south of France, where we el U5, Now we rice ever paid | bus backward, how to find your | |and are fully Belgians agein, even in lh:; mu;l’:r of our accent.” Vet nch papers continue to say that these people are French. Should there not, then, be a war bstween France and Belgium? | C e Berlin Submits To Second “American Invasion.” Berliner Tageblatt.—Berlin has just submitted, this time with equa- nimity, to a second ‘“American in- vasion.” Two hundred cadets from the American cruiser Arkansas had hardly left Berlin when there arrived at the capital 30 cadets from the battleship Wyoming on a sight-seeing excursion. | The visitors stopped at the Central Hotel, Comdr. Foxwell being in charge of the detachment. During the evening every one was | impressed with the sight of our Ameri- | can_guests walking about the streets {in their handsome uniforms. and we | believe that the feeling was reciprocated | on the part of the Americans by what they saw of Berlin and its people, | though their first acquaintances were made at night. The next day they made a compre- ensive tour of the city, and in the | afternoon they were driven to Pots- dam (17 miles) to see the royal palaces. In the evening they were entertained J‘ at the Wintergarten. |, Then they visited the flying field at | Tempelhof, ‘and such of them as de- | sired had an opportunity to see Berlin {from the air in a flight over the city. | e Soviet Vegetable Planting Program Fails. U. 8. 8. R. Economic Review. cow.—The consumers’ operatives' pro- gram for planting 300,000 hectares of vegetable gardens was only 57 per cent fulfilled June 1, the sowings | amounting to 172,780 hectares (481,950 acres). In some of the regions, how- | ever, the plan has been overfulfilled. | In April of this year there were 3,628 | foreign _ specialists in Soviet industries | under the supervision of the Supreme | Economic Council. Of these, about a | balf are engineers and technicians and | the remainder skilled workmen Ger. mans make up about two-thirds of the total number, with Americans, about one-fifth, ranking next. Coal mining employed 500 of these specialists: metal- | lurgy, 351; building construction, 315; | automobile and tractor manufacturing, | 295; other machine building, 231; Jum- | ber operations, 149; non-ferrous metals, | 138; chemicals, 101; oll, 25, and there are & large number of other foreign !exper'.l and workers in fields not under the supervision of the Supreme Eco- | nomic Council, such as railways, the | food industries, etc. | * ok ok | Denmark Delivers Motor Lifeboat to Belgium. Danish Commercial Review, Co- penbagen.—At the International Ship- | ping. Exhibition in Antwerp last year Denmark was represented for in- stance III one of her most modern motor lifeboats. This boat was the center of much attention and was awarded the grand prix. { At the request of the Belgian gov- | ernment the boat was demonstrated off "lhe port of Nieuport, with such satis- factory results that a similar boat was ordered from the naval dockyard at | Copenhagen for the Belgian eboat Service. This lifeboat is now ready; it | has been christened Minister Lippens |and will be stationed at Nieuport. It | has been built of oak, has a length of 110.3 meters, a beam' of 295 meters, (and a draught aft of 0. | The screw is tunnel, | and the boat itself is nu:’nme owin, to its mweruk-elughm man! seven knota, THE LIBRARY TABLE By the Booklover Except for the universal human in- stinct of life, to live even when there is no reason for desiring life, there is nothing to explain why the cotter and fisher folk in Johan Bojer's novel, “The Everlasting St: le,” to go on with the struggle. at Flata, the home of al Flata and his family, is bitter and gray and heavy with poverty. The little piace lies out by the headland, on the broad fjord, which is shut in by “the long whale- back of the westward mountains.” It is part of a hamlet of huts, “gray as the sea—gray as the shingle below— each with its boat house and a boat ior two lying * * * in the open and oozing out tar in the heat” Flata is “a little old house sunken together un- der a turf r The walls have been battered by many a Winter storm, and over the two small windows down- stairs there is a single one under the loft. It is as if the house were clos- ing one eye against the western eaven.” Here live Paal Flata, his wife, other Lisbet; his son Per and his daughters, Anna and Martha. There is also a small adopted boy, Martin, and later the family receives additions in the form of Mother Lisbet's illegiti- (mate son, Gjert Knutsen, who, after a meteoric career as a head waiter in the city, has become a wreck at 40, and the illegitimate child of Martha, little Astrid. In this Norwegian parish, as perhaps in some other parts of the world, the poor are the most hos- ! pitable, the most ready to share the ittle that they have. * ok ok % In the small fishing hamlet, monot- ony and drabness are the best that life has to offer. When monotony is |broken, it is by disaster. During the brief Summer, when there is daylight all night long, thore is warmth, and life can be lived out-of-doors. The small crops are ha vested, and the cattle from all the little erofts wind up the glen to the outlying pastures. People dress in their hoarded Sunday best and walk up the valley to church on Bun- days. But Autumn comes almost im- mediately; Per goes off for the herring fishing; Mother Lisbet takes a few dozen eggs to the city and brings back a few shillings, with which she buys coffee and sugar and sirup for the por- ridge. Then comes Winter, the longest of all the seasons, Storms rage over the little hamlet; the men are away at the Lofoten fishing, and of course the women never know whether all will come back. At home there is pinch- ing and paring, but in spite of all the b’l‘fix run up at the village store. Mar- tha, with her shoulders weighted by a yoke on which hang two pails, struggles up through the snow-drifted fields, breaks the ice in the well head and car- ries water for both kitchen and byre. She must go many times to bring enough. Mother Lisbet tends the two cows, the pig, the six sheep and the hens, and often goes out to the byre even at night because the animals are like people to her, and she enjoys their company. With the Spring, the men come back from the Lofoten fishing; if the season has been good, the bills at the store are paid; if not, the bills run on until the storekeeper refuses further credit. Mother Lisbet and Martha scrub down the little house with soap- suds. The men plant the small patch of ground, boil down the cods’ livers from the fishing to make oil to take to town and cut peat in the bogs. * ok * When the story of “The Everlasting Struggle” opens, & bride is leaving Flata. Anna is marrying a brids far above her in ‘the social and - cial scale, Peter Norset, eldest son of the widow Norset of one of the big farms up in the dale. look bright for the Flata family, but their predestined fate is a gray one, and the brightness fades, Peter Norset is a dreamer, a ne'er-do-well, and Anna in the end settles down to & life more miserable than the one she has left. Flatay poor ss it is, is the center of the life of all the family col It has not much to ofl'e):,' but. Per, for, after ntlh'g“ is h‘l :l:ln must st le to pay bills_a e store, and atter her ta ‘from Inderberg farm he be, to long for a different life from it of his par- Lofoten fishing, without share or gear, and to earn only half what the others got, and all through his life, too, he gl his stated times on te for a few pence a day. * * * It was as if he leaned toward his father as he sat there, fain as he was. If he were to ls‘s:otll',he::ghmnlllm ys, WO it up poverty. He would rememglr his father—Father made out to bear it :nd.he. must do the same.” be he Daisy, Princess of Pless, is the daugh- ter of Col. and Mrs. W. Cornwallis- West and was the wife of Hans Hein- rich, fifteenth Prince of Jjournals, the period of the World War, when she was, through her , lving in tll;:r land German of her own country's enemy. tter ook, ft Unsaid™ on and social visits to other estates in Bavaria,/Ga- licia, England :nd.\o:x fih Riviera. Vladimir Zenzinov, a revolutionary Soctalist, was exiled by Cazarist Russian government in 1910 to North- eastern Siberia, the Yakutsk Territory, where he was sent the territory to the of R Ustye, the farthest north habitation in the territory. His experiences there are related in his book, Oblivion,” with the collaboration Isaac Don Levine. Zenzinov ported to the village by dog sledge and found there seven cabins on the bank of a frogen stream, with end- léss stretches of snow-covered tundra beyond. There the polar night lasts seven months and temperature often goes to 95 degrees below zero. to the governor of to of ‘was trans- Kien Timseit siive Tor eep alive for two to meke a record of the lm few natives of the region, the bird life in Summer and the geography of the territory. . and { the * ok ok ANSWE RS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. ‘Thousands of Government experts are working constantly for the benefit of all citizens of the United States. They wili work directly for you if you will call for the fruits of their labors through our Washington bureau. State your inquiry briefly, write clearly, and. inclosing 2-cent stap for a pe letter in reply, address The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washington, D. C. . Do le who object to prize- %‘g"“{. ogjectl 'w'mxm’:?- sport?— A. Usually it is not condemned as & sport. Its recommendations are that it is excellent exercise and is a char- acter-building sport. Q. Is the Department of Agriculture always accurate in its cotton crop pre- dictions? Isn't its estimate of fifteen and a half million bales for 1931 likely to be far too high?—T. G. A. The estimates are fairly accurate. | The department’s estimate was 119.000 bales too high in 1930, 715,000 too high in 1929, 187,000 too low in 1928, and 546 too high in 1927. Q. If diamonds and coal are both carbon, what is the difference between them?—T. 8. A. Coal is impure carbon. A diamond is pure carbon, lized. That is, the diamond has its carbon atoms ar- ranged in a definite form and rigidly fixed in that position. Q If a duly elected Senator cannot appear to qualify and take the oath of office in March, when does his salary begin?—M. J. A. The Disbursing Office of the Senate says that Senators elected, whose terms of office begin on the fourth day of March, and whose cre- dentials in due form of law shall have been presented in the Senate, but who have had no oportunity to be qualified, may receive their compensation month- Iy from the beginning of their term until there shall be a session of the Senate. Q. Are foreign songs popular in Japan?—S. G. B. A. Among the imported songs which have been popular in Japan (after translation into Japanese) during the last few years are: “The University of Maine Stein Song,” “The March of the Grenadiers” from “The Love Parade”; “Sous les Toits de Song,” “Mon Paris, ‘The lero,” “Tell Me,” “Ramona,” Blue Heaven.” Q. Why tax salt? Do natives of India use more salt than other peo- ple’>—F. E. F. A. The natives of India do not use salt to an uncommon degree. In com- mon with practically all of the human race, however, a certain amount of salt is necessary to insure health, and this being a universal need, it was a logical object of taxation. 2% e invented the autogiro?— A. Tt was invented by the Spanish inventor, Juan de la Cierva. e?—P. R.C. Lodge, No. 4 (Virginia), mm S e ;Icflve member until his death; Alexan ay and “My ing the establishment of an independent Pennsylvania Grand Lodge that year, the Alexandria brethren decided to cast thelr fortunes with Virginia and, after im tion, asked for a new charter from the Grand Lodge of | Vo W therein as the first worshipful master under the new regime.. The lodge be- came No. 22 on the Virginia register. It did not change its name to Alexan- d:iél;wuhln’wn Lodge, No. 22, until | 1805. ia, which 28, was _granted April ) Q. Should & child be dressed more warmly indoors in the Wintertime than in the Summertime?—H. H. A. The Children’s Bureau says that if the house is well heated—68 to 70 degrees Farenheit—he should wear prac- tically what he wears on cool days in Bummer. If the house is poorly heated or floors are drafty, he will need warmer clothes. However, many children are dressed too warmly indoors. Warm outer garments should be ?rovwm for outdoor wear according t» temperature, Q. Can hard-shell crabs be made soft-shell crabs through any artificial process?—J. M. A. Soft-shell crabs are the ones which have cast off the old shell because of increasing growth. There is no way known to make them shed out of time or to make hard shells soft. Q. How much “does & mahogany log weigh?—A. H. ited from the coast of A. Those im) Africa average from three to five tons. Q. Do people have better a when ‘on shipboard than on thoseros 8. E. | A It is estimated that the average |landsman eats 50 per cent more on shipboard, unless he is seasick. s | attributed to the tang of the salt air | and the exercise passengers get in walk- | ing the decks. Q_Who said the American people are as dumb as beetles?—G. V. B. A. The comment has been attributed | to Gen. Jacob Coxey, recently named as §me Republican candidate for mayor of | Massillon, Ohio. | _Q How long did Bryan serve in President Wilson's cabinet?>—N. R. A. Two years and three months. He | served as Secretary of State from March 4, 1913, to June 9, 1915, g. WThlt is meant by mare clausum? A. It is a Latin phrase meaning closed sea, and is applied to a ses closed by a certain power or powers to the unrestricted trade of other nations. The free and open sea is called mare liberum, Q. How many varieties of climate are represented in California?—D. 8. A It is a climatic composite of the whole world. It has a 1,000-mile expanse, north and south. It has as much difference in climate as there is between Northern New York and Southern Florida. It hss snow-caj mountains and deserts of tropical heat. Q. Who said “No man e'er felt the halter draw, with good opinfon of the law?"—K. L. O. A. The quotation is from the bur- lesque epic, “McFingal” by John ‘Trumbull. Q. What was the Ofinton Bridge Case?—M. T. States effect A. It was a case in the United Supreme Court, in 1867, to an act of Congr: 288 * a5 a post and giving rail- Trige aitrvans et roads a right to manently. Q. Do goldfish ever sleep?—F, M. D, A Theymdo n;lt'. M‘rhq merely rest, They are inca closing their since they mpv.e Do eyelids. g Correction: The statue erected in Arlington Cemetery by the OCanadian mf mrnment mmm':rolt,:‘ the memory - of the Americans their lives with the Canadian forces. L Discussions New interest in German reparations has been created by the reporf.-of the Wiggin Committee of Bankers ap- pointed by the World Bank at Basel, following the London Conference of powers, on the need of revision for German reparations, combined with the of political ‘There is some adverse comment on any move that would change America’ at disputes,” says News, with the suggestion that past: all ‘the Newark ice of the banke: kers’ 1 aminatior n o gfim for “thorough _ex: whole structure” in the one-year torium., The Chicago Daily News feels that the committee's observations ‘“‘are pe! it serious les i, B Y S she eoul ler_presi 1 t, but that as- & the importance of “mu- ,” the New York Times “There is something more important than bank loans and credits, more t even than the now demonstrated willingness of financially strong countries to come to the aid of one in difficulties. The wisest and boldest economic plan cannot succeed without the backing of a clear national and international sentiment. Thus the implied appeal is to take advantage of the breathing space fortunately as- sured by the German moratorium and the suspension of payments on the war debts in order to frame a larger and conciliatory settlement, to be put into expiration of the year , “but it must ba re- t these its en! l, and must, be based on_ the ability of the to pay.” that “the is| San_Antonio Express. .|Report of Bankers Renews Flata, Tage d pu kettle . ity exasperates 3 after her marries Bergit! the f his parents g good {riends with 3. e Sepie hand rics’ in boat e = s = et o estal o Evening and be stalling, hoping againsi da they ther The Baltimore the importan ug moral Pl rtinent and challenge _seri Princess of Pless, o o \eY | Sanciers e v existing business depression. ‘marriage, the new Let () Pless estates ihe ud sumed _tha fal unlflyemm s to of Reparations | this development when he launched his moratorium plan. “If the nations that owe us the war billions can afford, as they are deing, | to spend more money for armaments and armed men than they spent before the war, why should we cancel their - debts to us?” asks the Oregon Journal. The Fort Wayne News-Sen- tinel holds as a factor in the situation the fact that, “with France spending - | nearly 22 times as much for armaments as she is called upon t¢ pay on war ' | debts, she could Keep-up her war debt | payments and take from Germany t Being seriously - cramped in anything except her ambi- | tion to dominate the world by force” | The Akron Beacon Journal avers that | “no impulse is being given the common. | effort to restore better times to this a great deal less ° | Nation so long as Uncle Sam is fanatic- | ally engaged in foreign missions.” The | Columbus Ohio State Journal com- ments: “What stand the United States | will take ultimately cannot be known | until Congress decides, and if we are ' | any prophet of congressiona! action, | that body will do all that is reasonabie: : to assure Germany a fair deal and at | the same time protect the rights of American citizens.” x X kx ¥ “The committee has submitted = frank, well considered report,” says the “It found that Germany's commercial obligations to foreign countries total about $1,875,« « 000,000. Co-operating with internation- al bankers who are short-term l.l-n:e cmmim“lmwdm for anl'lx;ml extension on . agerega 1200, 000,000. That understanding already has helped ve conditions, and doubt- less it will be followed by better col- laboration among the to u:glruombr: ‘World-Herald, things have been moving rapidly, in logical order, since Mmfim | took the initiative with his moratorium proposal, = There is. 4 a ten;llnfidh.:tflvlu to get &pply whatever measures S however unpalatable be and however counter 4o prejudices. This disposition has greatly accentuated since the near lapse of Germany has been - with a gravely threatening Great Britain. Civilization, tremity, is 50 ne only among nations, but ams within nations.” b Thanks to Hobbies. ‘The Fort Worth | bee - R