Evening Star Newspaper, September 5, 1931, Page 6

A—6 THE, EV With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. BATURDAY...September 5, 1831 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company 11th 8t ’s"n'i“ge’u%y"’ New York Office: 110 Esst 4nd 8t. Chicago Oflleec. L eRle(I::{(gl 31\2;? g o Engiand. it : Rate by Carrier Within the City. o Evening Star_..........45cper month ng and Sunday Siar n 4 Sundays) - -80¢ per month | and Sunday Star i .65¢ per month -3¢ _per copy 3 nd of ‘each mont! Qrders mz3 ge sent {0 by mail or telephone NAtional 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. ly and Sundsy. iy, only ay only All Other States and Canada. ly and Sunday...1yr.$1200°1mo.$1.00 iy Safy S 137, "800 1mo. 18 inday only 1yr, $5.00. 1 mo. Member of the Associated Press. ociated Press {s exclusively ertitled 0 T A e repusication of ‘Il news dis- patene d. ted i .1¥r.810.00: 1 mo., {3 qe0 imo. 1yr. $400; 1mo, ise. s credited to it or not otherwise crad- n this paper and also ‘he local news published herein. All rights of publization of gpecial dispatches herein are also reserved. — A Beginning. Within the fortnight that ends this evening much local history relating to| the Police Department has been writ-| ten. A prisoner in the first precinct has claimed that he was beaten by policemen. The District Commissioners have sought and obtained from Presi- dent Hoover his permission for the De- partment of Justice to investigate the! use of brutality by members of the| police force. Evidence has been gath-| ered by Federal agents, presented to the grand jury, and five policemen have been indicted, arraigned, have given their bonds and are awaiting trial for alleged participation in administering the third degree in four separate cases. Good work, and quick work! Meanwhile, the investigation con- tinues. Only one of the city's fourteen precincts has so far become involved. ) Additional operators of the Department of Justice have swelled the force of Federal agents now obtaining evidence in more than a tcore of new cases in which prisoners have alleged that they were subjected to beating and other unlewful methods of loosening their tongues. It is a good beginning. This investi- gation 13 to be no “flash in the pan.” It is no hysterical effort to catch a few victims and throw them to the lions to appease popular indignation. It must not and it will not cease until the Metropolitan Police Department has been purged of the men and officers, no matter who they are or how high they stand, who are responsible for what clearly has been shown to be a evil condition of affairs. ‘The community is indebted to Direc- tor Hoover of the Bureau of Investiga- tion and his able assistant, John M. Keith, for the remarkable and efficient dispatch with which the investigation has been carried through its initial stages. Their willingness to bring to bear all available resources, in men and methods, and their constant presence on the firing line have demonstrated the spirit with which they have under- taken a hard job. They took over a “cold” case, and more than one red herring had been drawn across the trail to lead them into blind alleys. They have made it a fresh case and their hands are full. They will not stop until the last stone has been turned. To United States Attorney Rover, who personally has presented the evidence to the grand jury, will fall the even more difficult task of carrying through with the court prosecutions to follow. ‘The same celerity that has marked the investigation and presentation of the | evidence to the grand jury should rule in bringing the cases into court. The community is asking quick and deter- mined action, and so far it has been granted. ——— e So much dress coat formality is being demanded of Jimmie Walker that it is difficult to feel sure that he is going to find a reasonable amount of time for & health-resort lounging costume. —o— The Hall of Archives. In the breaking of ground today at the old Center Market site for the Archives Bullding the Government be- gins work upon a project that has been long proposed, often brought to the point of actual planning, to be then dropped, and only now, in connection | with the great development of public construction, assuming form. The need of a central housing for the records of the Federal administration has been keenly felt for many years. It has been admitted by everybody concerned that some day such an addition must be made to the public equipment for the proper transaction of business. Mean- while the records of the Government, the non-current files, the priceless | though seldom consulted documents of decades of departmental operations, have been kept in confusion, in peril| of destruction and with little order of | arrangement and a minimum of con- venience for consultation wheneneed has arisen. It has been often said that no well managed business would keep its files with as little care for their preser- vation and their use upon occasion. A wealth of material is now housed in departmental store rooms, in base- ments, in corridors, in attics—if it can be sald that Government buildings have such things as attics. It is in the main poorly classified and all but inaccessible because of the congestion and the confusion. In one of the busiest of the bureaus of the Treasury docu- ments relating to cases less than ten years old, cases that are still subject to | reopening and reconsideration, are be- | yond practical reach, and a “dead line” | must be drawn sgainst them on that account. In theory a Government “case” is mever actually closed. Claims may be yevived long after adjudication, even by the highest courts, at least through at- tempts that have no warrant in law. Becond and even third generations of descendants of original creditors of the Government have been known to bring forward their claims, despite the seal- ing of the documentary records. The statute of limitations, in practical fact, does not run to shield the Government from such perennial attenticns. Apart, however, from the matter of sdministrative “bookkeeping” and legal adjustments there is a reason for the Ereservation of these “files.” They IOcl' ENING STAR 'h-va = potential historic value. Housed as they have been for many years in odds and ends of storage places and “holes in the wall,” in corners and lum- ber rooms, they have been of the least possible value to the researcher. Now, when the Archives Building is complete and with facilities for proper arrange- ment and for systematic consultation, they will be available to the-historical students and writers. In the early consideration of this facility for housing the non-current and semi-current files of the Govern- ment the thought was that the struc- ture need be little more than a bare warehouse. Happily a higher concept has been entertained and finally adopt- ed, and the Archives Building will be at once a storehouse and & monumental item of the new Government construc- tion program. It will be a dignified feature of the Capital scene as well as e well ordered, substantial,.safe and convenient place of storage and con- sultation. e Misplaced Economy. ‘When a man is compelled to under- take retrenchment in his personal bud- get the last thing he cuts down on is his insurance, be it life, fire or burglary insurance. The same thing applies, or should apply, to & nation. A nation's insurance against destruction or dam- age is its defense establishment. That protection should not be curtailed, any more than an individual reduces his insurance, except as a desperate last financial resort. Representative Wood, Republican, of Indiana, chairman of the House Ap- propriations Committee, in an appeal for economies in governmental expendi- ture, suggests that the place to make them is in the Army and Navy. “No wars are on now and no war is in sight,” he says in support of his plea. It is a poor argument. Mr. Wood might |as well propose that, as conflagrations are rare nowadays, American towns and cities could, with profit, abolish their fire departments, or at least scrap most of the expensive apparatus main- tained for emergency purposes. Happlily, the world has marched far | enough since the armistice of 1913 to reduce the probability of another devas- tating international conflict to the mimimum. But neither Leagues nor | Locarnos, pacts nor parleys, moratori- ums nor memorials give, or can give, mankind a cast-iron assurance that Mars has definitely abdicated the throne from which, throughout t! ages. he has periodically and suddenly decreed the arbitrament of war. President Yoover has just proclaimed a national commemoration of the sur- render at Yorktown on October 19. He calls upon the American people to cele- brate the end of “the hevoic struggle of our forefathers for political freedom and the {deals of liberty upon which our institutions are founded.” Without any superpatriotic exaggeration, the simple truth is that Uncle Sam spends $800,000,000 a year, more or less, on na- tional defense for perpetuation of tr liberty won at Yorktown and the pre: ervation of the institutions which polit- ical freedom guarantees. Yorktown year would be a grotesquely incongruous moment for the United States to tinker and tamper with its Army and Navy. The sentiments which will resound throughout the Union next month, in recollection of the gallant Cornwallis’ capitulation, and those which will ect across the continent in next year brations, will be words of hollow moc! ery if uttered at a time when Congres: in & penny-wise, pound-foolish spasm engaged in reducing the Republic's de- fenses. ‘There is one immediate and practi- designs on national defense. It is aptly sentative Andrew of Massachusetts. Mr. Andrew comes from the historic maritime district of Gloucester. He is fairs Committee. *‘One of the most tile and foolish things we do on the eve of every International Conference for Reduction of Armament,” says Mr. Andrew, “is to weaken our position by cutting down our defense program in advance of the conference. We did it before the Washington Conference of 1921 and we did it before the London that we should repeat this procedure on the eve of the Geneva Conference. We are not more hard pressed financially than every other country and are not obliged to sacrifice our own interests in the way Mr. Wood proposes.” 1t is painfully certain that the United States is going to Geneva with its vaunted “treaty Navy” in fact a non- treaty Navy. If such chimerical eccio- mies as Representative Wood advocates are enacted by Congress in the mean- time, the bargaining: power of the American delegation, already spfficient- ly weak, will be still more crippled. —tee Annapolis midshipmen who have been severely disciplined for pranks while in Denmark were entirely premature in undertaking to duplicate the traditional | gayeties of a sailor on shore. The Navy is an object of especial attention and it is but an indifferent student who neg- lects to give every possible assurance of readiness to assist in a record of punctilicus behavior. —————————— Eleven Hours Across the Continent. Maj. James Doolittle, late of the United States Army, in which he was ranked as one of its leading pilots, must have read the news of the Englishman who did 405 miles an hour the other dey . in his Schneider Cup plane. Whether he did or not, however, makes no difference because “Jimmy” was all set to do a little record-breaking him- self. And he did it to the queen's taste, incidentally adding a matter of ten thousand dollars to the family exchequer. In his new secretly built six-hundred- horsepower ship Doolittle set out yes- terday from Burbank, Calif. At the end of the day he had flown to New| York, and then, because he wanted to be with his family as quickly as pos- sible, he had casually flown from there to Cleveland and then on to St. Louls. He covered 2,882 miles during this record-smashing performance at the rate of four miles a minute or 240 miles an hour. He had crossed the continent in eleven hours and sixteen minutes, cutting more than an hour off Capt. Hawks' record, and in doing 80 captured the first prize at the Na- tlonal Air Races at Cleveland. It looks as if there is going to be a merry battle from now on betwcen the redoubtable Hawks and the former George Washington Bicentennial Cele- | cal objection to Representative Wood's| put by a brother Republican, Repre-| also member of the House Naval Af-| Conference of 1930. It is inconceivable | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1931 THIS AND THAT 'mnjor. Each is the director of aero- nautics of an oil company, and each is backed by rich resources in the build- ing of speedy ships. Both are fiyers of the first rank and know all the tricks of the game. And rbw that Doolittle has made his challenge and won the honors it is not like Hawks to sit supinely by and allow him to keep them. ‘The fight for speed supremacy is a fine thing for aviation. During the yéar he has reigned as master of cere- monies in speed circles Hawks' trim little ship has been conceded to be the fastest commercial plane. While its maximum speed has never become known, the captain has frequently hit the 220- mile-an-hour pace on some of his record-breaking performances. This speed was & big jump from the fastest plane in the same category a year or two ago. Doolittle’s ship appears to be even faster, as he rode the winds yesterday at 240 miles an hour and better. That marks another advance in design and construction. So with these two premier pilots hard at work it may not be long before the United States takes its rightful }Jlut in the world of aviation. It has a long way to go, especially in the matter of speed, but from all signs a small group of men, Hawks, Doolittle, Willlams, Bayles and others, are on their way to great accomplishments, ——— et Close students of world conditions refer to a psychological factor as dom- inating the crisis;which does not assist in simplifying the matter. Psychology 25 a science is declared by those who have given it studious attention to be still in its infancy. It may, therefore, be contemplated at times as perhaps analogous to juvenile prattle, which does inot hesitate to interrupt the wisdom of I the plain people. —_— atee Suffering in China calls for food- stuffs. Bo far as wheat is concerned there is a demand and a supply which find difficulty in getting together because of obstructions in world interchange, A new genius is needed competent to ad- just philanthropies and credits on a scientific basis. . Philadelphia is again discussing local politics with evident relief. The higher intellectual standards of statesmanship offer as strong a bid as is possible under the circumstances for the place in pop- jular attentlon that has too long been | monopolized by the underworld leaders. — e Few persons are capable of sufficient marvels of modern aercnautics as only primitive mechanisms, assuredly des- tined to go on with a development cor- responding to that shown by the loco- | motive and the automobils —————— Flowers are so abundantly at the dis- posal of gunmen for funeral purposes im", a cruel suspicion arises that even some of the florists have been made to feel the compulsory influence of a racketeer system. —_— e Those who manage to prosper { the Stalin plan will next have to be carefully supervised to prevent them from drifting into capitalistic sentiment | in order to take care of newly acquired | poscessions. | —von Night clubs are said to be losing their attraction for the general public. Few | persons are capable of the physical courage so frequently required in con- nection with nocturnal revelry. +oona. SHOOTING STARS. under BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. A Call | Hey! You with the downcast eye, And you with the glistening tear, And you with the faint, regretful sigh, | And you with the icy sneer! { Dorr't you know that the sky is smiling And the flowers are out in blocm, | And the world is bent on beguiling Each heart from the haunts of gloom? { And you with the bitter werd— { More bitter, perhaps, if wise— | How many a mind is to envy stirred | By your fortunes which you despise! | There is always some chap whose griev- ing, If his grief were only known, Would bid you to its relieving And help you forget your own. Precarious Enterprise. “What happens to a man who carries water on both shoulders?” asked the youth who is learning politics. | hate to use slang. But as a rule he gets | scaked.” Oft the List. “After a man has invested in one of ur get-rich-quick schemes do you keep on sending him literature for your new enterprises?” “Certainly not,” answered the pro- moter. “What's the use of wasting post- age stamps on a man who is broke?” ‘The Race. | Though yesterdays may leave a trace | Of anger and regret, Tomorrow’s always in the race And is your one best bet. Disposed to Slumber. “Do ycu enjoy the social whirl?” “No,” replied Mr. Cumrox; can't honestly say that I do. I very seldom | put on evening dress clothes without | feeling that I'd rather be in a suit of pajamas.” An Eye to Effect. “Is it true that you eat with your knife?” “Nct always,” replied the representa- | tive of a backwoods district; “only in | lic, where my constituents can see i Fido’s Guardian. key?"” “Latch key!” echoed Mr. Meekton. he doesn't let me carry anything ex- cept the deg.” Imitation. How oft we study men who came To glory and undying fame, And find the blunders of the great Are all that we can imitate. “De man dat don't keep pushin’ for- | ward,” said Uncle Eben, “is mighty li2- ble to be a drawback.” Showers Hamper Shower. From the Lowell Evening Leader. Hereabouts observation oric showers was hampered alence of the kind of which we are more 0.:1; mete- e prev- Foith | Thousards of human beings who know imagination to contemplate the giant | “Well,” replied Senator Sorghum, “I | | ened with extinction. Millinery interests “Does your wife let you carry a latch | BY CHARLES E. ‘The man who can never please his friends is most unfortunate. Familiarity breeds contempt, with He. ma; world. be a success in the business n soclety he may shine. only his name look up to him with reverence, almost. But his personal friends constantly pick on him. ‘They are forever chasing the defects of his character, hounding them down &nd inting them out to him. If he buys a small hcuse, they want to know why he lives in such a band- box. If he purchases a big one, they de- clare heatedly that it is much too large for him. * ok K ¥ Everything he is, has and does is wrong, according o these dear de- fenders of his personality. If he would listen to them, it is al- ways and only for his own good that they find so much fault. In fact, if he dares listen to them, they are not finding fault at all, but are simply laying down the eternal law in_his case. They are wisdom, incarnate, and he is a vast ignorance. Were it not for them, the poor fel- low would be sunk into a huge pit of ignerance and despair. With them to guide him, there is yet some small hope for him. It i5 small, however, for the fellow is very stubborn. Somehow, and al- most maliclously, he resists the con- .;:Bnt criticisms which they place before im. He should welcome their efforts, and not assume the attitude of Job, who sneered so effectively: “No doubt ye are the people, and | wisdom will die with you!” | * oo x | ‘The truth secems to be that such an! unfortunate fellow is a victim, rather than a subject. Out of a certain kindness of heart he permits himself to be badgered, as it were, If he resents, he does so secretly, when he should do it openly. | Those who worry him, as a hound | dog does a coon up a tree, do what | they do out of envy of great Caesar. | If he replies in kind, it gives them the perfect oppertunity which their soul seeks of declaring that he, himself, is the envious one. He who does wrong asks for nothing better than to turn his own nastiness {onto the victim. | * ok ok ok Now there are thousands of these victims, in all walks of life, men and women, and even children, who dislike quarreling, and the approach®s to Guar- rels, the constant bickerings and nag- gings which so often.mask themselves {under a smile ination in kind, In | adopt the attitude of good humor. If one could believe them, they are the best tempered persons in the world. They do, indeed, as Shakespeare said, protest too much. It is about time that the world got it through its head that mean, nasty personal critic: even when made in [lhe form of good humor and under th= iclr}fik of good intentions, is meanness still, One would find their subtle work {much more manly, more commendable in every way, if it were made Straight from the shoulder. ¥ * Let it'be admitted that much of this personal criticism of others is intensely | petty, and scarcely worthy of notice, It is not, therefore, so much the actual | 85_yet un TRACEWELL. content of it as the constant tition of it whict causes the trouble. It resembles the drip, drip, drip of a sPlle, finally getting on the nerves of the sensitive. The man who can lie down and go to sleep in a boiler facf ‘would never hear a leaky spigot, and similarly he perhaps would not mind a friend who was forever reprimanding him for some imaginary wrong. x The sensitive man or woman, however, who is the theme of this articley 15 not the sort who can go to sleep under nolsy circumstances. Similarly, he does not welcome the constant drip, drip, drip of an eternal chatter about his wrongs, misdeeds and shortcomings. He knows the faults of himself better than any one else can, and is his own most merciless critic. * % % Now fust what is there about this person 'which seems to drive some friends to constant efforts to stir him up to make himself bigger and better in _every way every day? Surely the cause is twofold: A real- ization of latent power, as yet untapped, and a too kindly attitude on the part of this reservoir of power. It may be caid in all justice to all parties that seldom do you find one of these everyday victims without di covering a man or woman, or even child, in whom other people believe they find ;idden sources of strength There was in this eity several years ago a talented young woman who was driven to take her own life, some of her friends felt, because of the constant naggings of other of her friends, who professed to see in her great talents as yet unutilized. She left papers in which was stated the belief that friends had always ex- pected more of her than she could ac- n‘mg!l.sh and this had preyed upon her mind. This was an extreme case, no doubt, but typical enough in a way. * o k% The great majority of human beings without any special talent are accepted for what they are. Little 'do they sus- pect how fortunate they are in that simple acceptance They are saved the sorrows of the man or woman in whom others see genits as yet unmanifested toward the world Unhappily, that genius may not be there, after all. Or, being there, it may never come to the surface. Life, nc doubt, is more in the grip of chance than most people are willing to admit, nd the fortunate combination, just the right key to the lock, unfortunately does not exist in every case. Nor are the persons who attempt to smash the lock with the sheer hammer of logic and complaint taking the right course. In most instances they are do- ing the one thing which will prevent the victim from finding his own key and unlocking his own treasure house. R All such persons, it may be said without reserve, are of mild dispositions. This does nct mean, of course, that all persons of mild natures are geniuses ‘The person who is the constant butt of criticiéin from his friends will be | found to be one who should, if he could, | turn a rougher shell to the world. He would profit if he adopted, early in life, a harsh exterior and thus keep off the nagging of those who are trying |to help him, but who, alas, are adopt- ing the perfectly wrong course! We knew one splendid gentleman who, much to his benefit, adopted ex- | actly this course. His voice was rough and harsh and his manner intimida ing: but those who knew him best knew t was only a necessary bluff on his part His bark was much worse than his bite. From his standpoint, however, it was excellent. It worked! Eugenie are provided discussicn of fachions, with particular reference to the popularity of the hat which bears the name of the former feminine leader of France. American comment emphasizes the submission of both women and men to the dictates of those who are rulers-of the realm in which styles are determined. It i generally agreed that the new decree: | will be favorable to business improve- ment. “Milady’s modes ever are things of wonder,” says the Atlanta Journal. “Let fashion utter a decree and her subjects heed it as if it were Mosaic law. Now fu little hets are being worn, yet more startlin; comes from Paris— of a new evening gown which envelo the wearer like a mold and has tails like & comet. * * * The ladies will flock to showings and be thrilled. Man —the homunculus—will sit back, gradu- ally grow accustomed and cheerfully foot the bill. It is a time-old way and one which will continue as long as the closk of the ages ur;, The female of | in the current the species must be agbrned. Men mut ter., but in their hearts they demand ‘The new mode in women's clothin according to tha Christian Science Monitor, “characterized by naive his- torical inaccuracies that with equa- nimity describe a given hat as ‘Empress Eugenie,’ ‘1880° and ‘First Empire—all three, when in fact it is not even any one of these—of a sudden hes thrust | itself into the American scene. And women. apathetic to th> historical truth | of their attire, but mightily concerned with its looks, are in a great to-do acquiring hats that aspire with widely vars success to achieve a saucy downward tilt over the right eve.” The Monitor comments on the great changes in women's clothes during the three decades of the present century, while those of men reveal slight changes, but it concludes: “When one considers how rigorously men stick to their streamy coats, and sometimes even vests also, in the warmest weather, the question is apposite whether men or women are the more servile ‘slaves of fashion’— men to the fixity of their modes, women to the transiency of theirs.” 2% “Agitation among bird lovers” is ob- served by the BalMmore Evening Sun, because “the new bonnets demand feathers for decoration,” but that paper | gives assurance that fears are ground- less, for “the feather industry long ago gave up looking to the fields and the | woodlands for their sources of supply, | and have been keeping an eye on the chicken, the duck and the turkey pens.” The Evening Sun continues as to the business interests involved: “Until the Eugenie hat showed up this season the decorative, feather business was threat- report that several months ago there were only about 20 Ieath“e’rhctorlrs in the country, but that nowfthis number has increased to about 300, and turkey, duck, goose, pigeon and chicken feathers, especially roosters’ tail feathers, are finding ready markets. The ostrich feather business also "~ 'ooking up. Six years ago there wei about a mil'ion birds on farms in the Cape of Good Hope territory, the best for those birds. Today there are only about 25,000 ostriches in that section, but the de- mand for small plumes undoubtedly will see an increase all around. Provided, of course, the new style lasts any time at all.” “Two distinct and separate merits” are found by the Des Moines Tribune- Capital in the new hats. That paper declarcs: “First, almos® 300 feather. fac. tories have suddenly sprung into apera- tion in place of the 20 that were wast- ing away a year ago. And all because the Princess Eugenie had a whim about a feather in her bonnet. Secondly, one more of the fashion secrets has heen exposed. ‘The National Association of Audubon Societies got itself all excited because the feathers of rare wild birds | 1Modes‘ of Moment Inspire Study of Those of Long Ago Reminders of the days of Empress were beginning to appear by the thou- sands. pinch oceaston But they were equal to the beautiful birds anyway: thev're merely chicken feathers, turkey feathers, goose feathers, pigeon feathers. and so on. Anyhow, don't be silly. You can* pay $5 for feathers from a rare bird and put them on $1.98 hats!” * e Commenting on the masculine ob- server who found the new hat associated with the names of Maid Marian, Rosa- lind and Peter Pan, the Providence Journal replies: “Well, well, we learn something new every day! We always liked the way Maid Marian looked in her ‘Robin Hood' costume, but if she had worn a Eugenie hat we are sure we should have disliked her intensely. And we can't remember a hat of this description on Rosalind or any one else in the Forest of Arden. As for the notion of a Eugenie hat on Peter Pan, | it is simply ridiculous. If Maud Adams had been topped off in any such fashion when she asked if we believed in fairies we should have holle: u ‘No, nor in anything else. Meeting the criticism that “recru- d nce of the ‘lady’ styles will have sastrous effect upon the compara- tively new-found democracy of femi- ninitv,” the Danbury Evening News comments: “If the style arbiters de- cree that there shall be a distinction between dress for the idle and that possible in working hours, it will make no difference at all in social standings or in democratic tendencies. During working hours well-to-do girls and women of impeccable social standing will dress in ‘working class costume,’ il this is necessary: they will wear the fluffly ruffies after work is done—as | their less well-to-do sisters will do, 100.” Recalling the history of the origi- nator of the style, Empress Eugenie, daughter of the Count of Montijo, who stirred Granada by marrying the daugh- ter of the very popular American consul, William Kirkpatrick, the St. Louis Times tells of the child of the union that combined the graces and tradition and learning of old Spain with the youth and vigor and hopes of another world. The Times remarks that Napoleon the Third was a happy captive of that child grown to womanhood, and concludes: “Fashions were sct as the Empress willed. If she mounted a horse so. that was the way it should be done. The furbelows and fripperies of the empire’s women were first worn by its new leader’ in fashion. Among her fancies was a hat, small and low and feathered to suit an oval face—somewhat higher, with a flat top, for the hunt or the bridle path. The court took it up. Thin faces and fat, long and short, square and round, all were shadowed by the Montijo mode. It swept France, it reached over into Germany and Italy. English women took it up and Godey's Lady Book was aflame Yith it.” . Cheaper Platinum Hopes Based on Wider Gold Use From the Oakland Tribune. Both Russia, which has been the world’s chief source of supply, and Canada are rapidly increasing their out- put of platinum-and industrial users of the metal, economists and financiers are interested. If platinum is to be made cheaper, it is argued, there may he a return to the larger use of gold in the fine arts, Thus a style change may mean new demands for gold and a straightening out of economic values. ————————— Wine With a Kick. From the San Antonio Express. A Milwaukee woman standing in & pool of wine in the bisement of her house reached for an electric light was_electrocuted. has beer demon- strated that somerbootleg has kick That put the milliners in a bad | They broke down and con- ! fessed that those aren't feathers from | THE LIBRARY TABLE ‘There are many scholarly works on manners and customs in Elizabethan . | Py - Washington 1s the world's greatest storehouse of all kinds of knowledge. 2| You can draw on it free of charge than ," by Mlss M. 8t. Claire Byrne. But these and other valuable source books are too valuable, too scholarly, for the general reader, who wants to be entertained as well as informed, rrhlp:dgefm the former if he is rank literature. A book designed for this general reader, which is vivid as a stcy’ and yet full of authentic information is “Life in Elizabethan Days: ure of a Typical English Community at the End of the Sixteenth Century,” by Willlam Stearns Davis. The author has already e in his “Life on a Mediaeval Barony.” His method is a clever one. In “Life in Elizabethan Age” he imagines a fic- titlous but typical English sixteenth century town, “Boroughport, situate in the County of Thropshire * * ¢ east of the sun and west of the moon, upon the southern coast of England.” Near Boroughkport, and also imaginary and typlcal, is “Hollydean Hall, seat of the landlord, rising some two miles from Hockley Bar, the northernmost of the city gates,” and “spread on the thriv- ing farm lands of Hollydean parish.” Then, of course, Mr. Davis invents in- habitants for Hollydean Hall. Its mas- ter is Sir Walter Hollydean, who has, because of family poverty, in his youth been articled to a rich London mer- chant, whose daughter Catherine he has married. The pounds and shillings “crazy old manor house in the most approved architecture.” Lost Hollydean lands were bought back, Sir Walter becomes a justice of the peace and his lady became “a great stickler for ranks and pedigrees and tries to make her children believe that her own grand- father nothing less than a lordly royal cofferer and not merely a petty usurer, as the malicious allege.” Sir Waltr and Lady Hollydean have three children—Capt. Andrew Hollydean, who poses as a gallant and a rake; Mistress Anne and young Mistress Arabella, “healthy, strapping girls in their teens.” {Having created a family, Mr. Davis | proceeds to tell us how they lived, every day and on unusual occasions. * ok ok % The chapters in “Life in Elizabethan | Days,” taken together, give a very com- plete picture of Elizabethan life in town and country, but not of London life, which was totally different. Some of the subjects discussed are “A Stately Man- sion and Its Furnishings,” “Raiment, Sober and Gay"”; “Food and Feasting,” Maids, Matrons and Matrimony.” “The Pains cf Schooling.” “Books, Authors {and Printing": “True Religion and Its | Ministe: “Plagues, Religions and | Funerals”; “Cottages and Farms,” | “Rogues, Vagabonds and the Queen's | Justice’ Fairies, the Devil and Witch- i craft”; “Pactimes and Dancing,” “Trav- ielers and Inns,” “Ships and Seafaring” and “The Queen's Progress to Holly- dean.” ‘The architecture and furnish- ing of Hollydean are ornate and elegant, belonging to the “new age” of Elizabeth. The popular architect, Master Sylvester. has rebuilt it, after Sir Walter's mar- riage, in the “Italianate” style. The great hall, where retainers and servants and less preferred guests gather “under the hcspitable presidency of Master Scanwell, the proprietor's stew- ard,” is “an apartment of noble dimen- sions, * * There is a gallery for musicians over against the dais, set up near the high ceiling of ornamental | plaster work. At the center of one side wall, raised upon another low platform, is an encrmous fireplace armed with huge iron firedogs.” Tapestries adorn the walls of the great hall, the parlors and the great galleries. The other less important rooms are hung with the sixteenth century forerunner of wall- paper, “painted cloths,” “long strips of canvas painted in a kind of tempera, the scenes being sketched in broadly, somewhat as will be the theater scenery of another age. * There are all manner of designs, especially conven- tionalized plants and beasts, but, above all, there are crude ‘histories’—scenes from the or else from the old mytholo; The mansion is further adorned with “Turkey work,” handsome embroideries supposed to be imitations of Turkey carpets; family portraits, with great attention to_ the costumes, but little correctness of like- ness; silver plate and pewter, carved stools and tables. a few straight carved Ial’m(‘hnlrs for the family and distin- guished guests: carved buffets, cabinets, | cupboards, often inlaid with mar- | queterie; carved chests everywhere, but {almost ro chests of drawers; enormous | carver beds, with valances, canoples and | curtains to shut cut the dangerous night | RN ? Elegant as are the other furnishings of Hollydean, the floors remain crude end rustic. There are no carpets. | “The floors are strewn with thick lay- 1ers of rushes. Enter her majesty's presence chamber; the silken-clad legs of lordly courtiers are pricked as they kneel in salutation upon the hay. * * * Hollydean, like all contemporary man- | sions, has this deep, crackly floor cover- ing in all the better chambers. Just t | now in Summer., when grasses, rushes and wild flowers are abundant, this natural carpet is not unpleasant. The rushes have just becn changed, and | the whole dwelling is permeated by the clean, sweet odor of new-mown 'hay, * * In Midwinter and early | Spring the case, alas, is very different; the old rushes have been allowed to re- { main since Autumn. Dust, ale drop- pings, grease and all manner of rub- bish have sifted down through them. In many rooms there is constant eat- ing: how easy to clear the plates and trenches merely by flinging down the bones and crusts to hide themselves in the stalks, and, presumably, to be de- voured by the numerous cats and dogs constantly ranging the apartments. Then in March, when the meadows be- gin to supply a new crop, there is a tremendous bundling and sweeping. The old rushes are cast out for the lads’ bonfires and are replaced with the fragrant layer of the new. almish people,, however, complain that the hordes of vermin that breed happily all through the Winter are never quite cleared out of a mansion. Not merely the floor rushes, but the tapestries, hangings d curtains are sure to be populous. * * * What matter? An Englishman’s skin should be tough; and if the odor from the rushes is sometimes a trifie strong a fine gentle- man can hold to his nose his every- ready scent ball or ‘pomander.’ As for the suggestion that stale rushes breed disease, Sir Walter simply wags his head and swears that the world is full of silly notions.” In describing the food of the family at Hollydean Mr. Davis tells us that the English have always been mighty eaters of flesh. The use of vegetables has grown, but in Eliza- bethan days they were just beginning to be considered as something more than a garnish. Meat, of many kinds, is the staple of the hearty midday dinner and the lighter supper at Holly- dean, Beef, mutton, veal, lamb, kid, pig, red and fallow deer, capon and coney “are proffered every day.” Wild fowl of all kinds, fresh and salt fish, eggs, milk, cheese, turkeys, peacocks and swans for state occasions, carrots, cab- bages, turnips, K;rmlg:, cucumbers, radishes, pumpkins, lettuce, as, es, pl ies, apricots, melons, ap- ples, pears and a few grapes and figs all appear on the not very restricted Elizabethan menu. The best cooks are also able to make jellies in fancy forms and pasties of meats or fruits, as well as marchpane, conserves, ginger and mince pies. * ok x % Alice Grant Rosman has written a light rovel with light touch in “The Sixth Journey.” John Falconer, Eng- lish architect, lower, meets Hilary Revel, author of travel books, on a steamer bound for England. Both have away from their country for years, both are | himself and the makers of | similarly treated medieval life of the London merchant rebuilt the| '.hrol.r!h our Bureau there. Any question of faet you may ack will be answered mrng:ly in a persone® letter to you. Be cdreful to write clearly, give your full name and address and inclose two- cent stamp for reply postage. Send vour inquiry to The Evening Star Informa- tion Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Direc- tor, Washington, D. C. Q. Will the DO-X go on around the world or return across the Atlantic to Germany?—M. M. A. Present plans indicate that this gigantic airplane will return to Ger- many across the Atlantic. Q. Are there as many Negroes in t! North as there are in the South?—B. E. A. By no means. About nine and one- half million are in the South and two and one-half million in the North. The Negro population in the North is increasing rapidly owing to migration from the South, while in the South it is little more than holding its own. Q. At what point was the Mississippi River first seen by a white man?—M. H. A. It was reached in 1541 by Fer- nando de Soto near the present site of Memphis, Tenn. Q. Does an electric bulb become less efficient when old—that is, is more cu rent used for the amount of light pro- duced?~-S. W. F. an electric light bulb deteriorates with age and becomes less efficient—that is, it | gives less light in proportion to the cur- rent consumed. Minute particles of the filament are deposited on the interior of the bulb. Q; Who wrote “The Heavenly Twins? A the pseudonym of Frances E. Clarke McFall. It was published in 1893. Q. Please name the different kinds of clouds.—D. F. A. The terms used to describe the various cloud formations are: Cirrus— detached ‘cloud of delicate appearance, generally white; cirro-stratus—thin sheet | of whitish cloud: cirro-cumulus—mack- | erel sky; alto-cumulus—larger rounded masses, white or grayish; alto-stratus— dense sheet of gray or bluish cloud: strato-cumulus—large lumpy masses or rolls of dull gray cloud: nimbus—dense layer of dark cloud with ragged edges from which steady rain or snow usuaily falls; cumulus—"woolpack” o flower cloud”; cumulo-nimbus—thunder cloud or shower cloud, great masses of dark clouds rising in form of moun- tains or towers. Q. When & foreigner applies for a United States patent, can he use his own language?—T. G A When an application is made for a United States patent all data must be submitted in the English language. Q. Is the ball and chain still used in prisons?—S. S. A. In some cities and States the practice of attaching a ball and chain to the legs of prisoners is still in force This, however, is not done except to refractory prisoners—those who will make some attempt to escape and to those whose dispositions are very un- certain and who frequently cause strife and altercations. Q. Please desc morial —J. T. 8. A. It is said that the $800,000 Hard- ing Memorial at Marion, Ohio, among the finest of its kind in the world. It is a circular building 102 feet in diameter and 57 feet high. set in & 10-acre landscaped park. There ribe the Harding Me- L_UNIVERSAL, Mexico City.— Recently there entered the United States at Laredo, some eight toneladas of finest Chi- huahuan marble, which will be |employed in the construction of a monument to Capt. Emilio Carranza, the famous Mexican aviator whose plane fell two vears ago at Mount Holly, N. J. The memorial of the intrepid fiyer will be erected at the very spot where Capt. Carranza lost his life. The department of public education is de- fraying the cost, both by appropriation and contributions received from school children and others desiring to honor this Mexican hero, * X x % Caddy, Hit by Goif Ball, Dies From Fractured Skull The Honolulu _ Advertiser —Wong Lam. 14, popular Waialae caddy, died at Queen’s Hospital from a fractured skull rcsulting from being struck by a golf ball driven by Gerald M. Griffin, Schofield Barracks. The plucky little caddy trudged around the course to finish the game after the accident occurred. Soon after he had reported to William Case, caddy where his skull, was found to be frac- tured. Lam didd six hours later, ‘The accident occurred at the fif- teenth, hole while Lam was caddying tor a threesome made up of Dr. Percy H. Wilson, W. R. Levy and Grifin. The lad was standing about 75 yards from the tee, waiting for the golfers to com- plete their drives, when he was in- jured. ‘The boy's parents are Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lam of Waialae. Deputy Sheriff William Hoopai is conducting an inquest. * ok K K Would Draft Men To Tuild Roads in Ecuador. El Telegrafo, Guayaquil—It is with great complacence that we recog- nize the efforts of the prefecture to pro- cure stable communication by means of a highway between Guayaquil and Salinas. The executive officer of the province has asked the president of the Guayaquil Automobile Club to exercise his influence in obtaining from con- cerns which have the equipment, the use of a truck for one day each month, and to enlist the interest and services, so far as practicable, of all the mem- bers of the organization. A sufficlency of heavy rolling stock should in this way be procured to handle the more elementary and diffi- cult stages of this road-building scheme. Public support through econtributions, etc., should also be solicited. Regard- less of the crisis, the progress of ‘Guayaquil must not be interrupted. In this connection there occurs to us the fine idea of a roadworking con- scription, which was presented to the Assembly of 1928, and ardently de- fended by its author, Dr. Jose Ramon Bolona, who cited the amazing bene- ficial results achieved by the same sort of program in Peru, where the necessity for improved roads had become so imperative that the executive dictator- compelled the services of all able- led men in repairing the old and constructing the new. This involun- tary service turned out to be, for that eoun'.rz a most wise lxncflumy ‘That the same benefits would be ob- tained in Ecuador, there is no doubt. The law proposed by Dr. Bolona would have required the registration of all able-bodied males in the country be- tween the ages of 18 and 50, without distinction of nationality. Each dhese would be required to render his —_— quaintance. On shipboard intimacy must grow rapidly, at all. Hilary learns about John's illegitimate daugh: ter who pastes for his adopted daugh- m.‘b\&thc knowledge do,.: ’nov. pre- ven marriage, which is foreshad- Juditn othing. of & comt- ‘som L] BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. A. The Bureau of Standards says that | t was written by Sarah Grand. | “cauli- | master at Walalae. he began to 1e€lk of | other experts. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS S Sl each containing 53 tons of marble, mark the outer circumference. Twen- | ty-two fluted fonic columns constitute an inner circle. wherein rest the bodies of President and Mrs. Harding. I Q. If a person jumped from s high building would he be unconscious whez he struck the ground?—M. C. A. Experiments conducted by the Army Air Corps indicate that the popular bellef that a person fallise from a great altitude will be ki*z .« rendered unconscious before reaching the ground is not correct. A man fall- ing from a great altitude does not nec- essarily lose consciousness. Q. Please give a definition of an orchestra~M. K. | A. Tt is a band of performers on vari- ous instruments, including especially those of the viol class, adapted for rendering the larger kinds of concertec music, as symphonies, overtures, etc. | and the accompaniments of operas, ora- | torios, masses, and the like, or for plav- | ing the slighter concerted music for theatrical performances. dances, etr It is commonly distinguished from the military or street band of plavers cn wind instruments, and from a group o solo players for rendering chamber music. Q. What is the meaning of all the | tiny flags that may be seen fluttering in ‘the gardens in Japan?—O. W. A. These pennants are used to frighten birds away, thus protecting the garden A lath upright is placed about every 20 feet, and a cord carried from post to post. On the cord strips of paper and cloth are tied. The fluttering pennants ! are, therefore, a graceful adaptation of | the scarecrow idea. Q. Please give the history of posters. | —P. C. A. Actually the poster or placard can trace its ancestry back almost to the |dawn of civilization. Egyptian wail- | paintings, mural decorations and in- scriptions produced over 3,000 years B. C. have been discovered by arche- ologists. The modern poster began with |@ules Cheret, a Frenchman, born in Paris in 1836, self-taught as a draughts- | man. In 1867 the world saw his first modern poster, an announcemert of & play enacted by Sarah Bernhardt, then 22 years old. The poster announced a fairy play entitled “La Biche au Bois.” lh no roof, but 24 great doric columns, | | Q. Is it fllegal in golf for & driv- ing iron to have a bulged face?— L W. R. | A Many {rons at resent are slightly bulged. It is not illegal, but is | a patented feature. Q. For how long has a certain verse of Ecrlpmrereen known as the Golden Rule?— 3 A The appellation has existed from a very early period and is found in the English language as early at 1674. Q. What is chutney?—B. R. 8. A Chutney is a Hindu word and refers to a warm or spicy pickle or con- diment consisting of a compound of sweet or acid fruit and seasoning, such o8 currants, raisins, ginger, chilies, garlic, mustard seed and vinegar. Q. If a Gold Star Mother cannot take the trip to France, can she have the cost of the trip instead?—C. C. A. The Department of War says that no monetary substitute can be made in lieu of the trip to the American Expe- ditionary Forces' cemeteries in France. Q. What will prevent development of mildew on book bindings?>—G. W. B. A. Mildew is checked by brushing over the books with spirits of wine or a few drops of an essential oil, such as oil of cloves, applied with a soft cloth. Highlights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands | services in the construction and con- servation of the public roadways and related work for six days in each year under a schedule arranged by the government. For the proper establish- ment of this system, a registration sim- ilar to that required by the government for military service or some equivalent poll would be sufficient, except in that cese aliens would be required to regis- ter and render service, too. | ERR New Class of Tourists Found in Mexico Today. El Universal, Mexico City.—A few | years ago Mexico was an unknown coun- try, a land about which few Americans had ever heard. despite the fact that such intrepid visitors as came were gen- erally so welcomed and well treated that one our famous writers once said that “Mexico is a mother to all for- eigners, but only a stepmother to her own children! But, in 1910. when Americans and | others were beginning to come to Mex- |ico in larger numbers, the revolutionary era began in the explosion at Puebla, and there was a general upheaval through ell Mexico that lasted nearly two decades. A succession of deplorable events ad- | vertised Mexico as she had never been advertised before, and it was logical that for a long time foreigners refrained from coming here except on some com- pulsion of health or business. It was feared that the sparks of revolution ‘nin_v time might start a new conflagra- tion. Most of those who came back to ’ Mexico after some vestige of order was restored were not so much tourists or visitors, as adventureres, seeking ex- citement and romantic sensations. But | they were disappointed, for Mexico has | never offered any real dangers to for- eigners. It is said that both federals and Insurgents, in their conflicts, always respected the citizens of other coun- tries and their flags. In fact, there is much basis for the assertion that battles were often stopped to permit | neutrals and non-combatants to depart | from the zone of fire. As soon as the mildness toward for- | elgners became generally known, an- | other class of tourists has begun to pour |into the country, particularly with the construction of better highways. These R?J’l' come for pleasure, profit an. | th, and are of a far better typ~ | than those who entered when turmoi: and distraction ruled the land, in the hope of improving their private fo. tunes. People who formerly went ta Europe for their vacations now coms to Mexico, and find much more to in terest and benefit them than they ever found abroad. r—ot Reforestation to Help Texas Cotton Farmers From the San Antonio Evening News. ‘The Texas Forest Service is supervie- ing the restoration of some 8,000.000 acres of cut-over timber lands in the ast Texas pine woods. That ambitious project will help the balanced-farming movement in a section devoted largely to cotton growing. Landowners in those parts, who are co-operating in this en- terprise, would profit still further if they would turn £ __, which have pro- duced cotton year after year for a gen- eration to growing pines. ‘Timber is about the only paying e for a worn- out farm; it yields a return in itself nnfil also stops erosion and builds up the soil. Cotton growers have heard that fact repeatedly from foresters, agricultural extension workers, county agents and Many hesitate to take such advice because they do not like the idea of waiting 20 or 30 years for a harvest, But the tracts recommendsd for that purpose now are being culti- vated at a loss, 20 if the farmers did nothing but quit working the land they ul rs. ‘The ths s regular crop. o tract in the 1 should hars 4 TR B -