Evening Star Newspaper, September 26, 1931, Page 6

3 2 ANRR. - THE whh Rate . I i - THE EVENING STAR threb men managed to sit on it and |bus terminals while efforts are lup-' posedly being made by the bus operators to find new locations. In-its July 15 order the dommission declared, among other things, that “established facts show that these ve- hicles (the interstate busses); operating through the most thickly co: ed por- tlons of the business area of: Washing- ton, have a serious detrimental effect on the movement of traffic. * * * The evidence shows that many of the busses used aregyapproximately thirty feet in length and that their mobility is such that they are able to maneuver with- out serious inconvenience to others only on the widest streets and avenues. * * * Studies presented in connection with this investigation show that it requires in excess of fifty feet of curb space to park busses of the size above described parallel to the curb line, Tektimony of traffie oMcers and others cited instances when as many as five Class A busses were grouped about street terniinals at angles approaching the perpendicular with the curb line, with the result that other vehicular traffic was diverted and the movement of street cars seriously delayed.” All of which is true. And all of which raises the question why the Public Util- itles Commission disregards its own evi- dence and makes matters worse. Has it. forgotten its order of last July? — et Gandhi and Charley,Chaplin met and convezsed on machinery as a successor to manual'labor. Ridicule is a powerful weapon, the more powerful when em- ployed with subtlety. There may have been ‘a good deal of political art in the association of the quaintly garbed ma- hatma with the idea of sheer comedy. ————— ‘Weather conditions have prompted frequent suggestions for a change of the inauguration date. September heat might cause a reasonable demand for lengthened vacations by moving Labor day into early October. Cares of citizenship find at least one mild relief when it is no longer neces- sary to figure train time in terms of daylight. Stock tickers are expected to be busy as usual. There can be no phase of the market which does not provide the habitual speculator with material for guesswork. e~ No hesitation is shown by President Hoover in applying the experience he gained as Secretary of Commerce to an aythoritative analysis of a new situa- tion in business. Farmers in Jowa do not want their has happened to shake the faith of the farmer that he has become suspicious even of demonstrated scientific facts. ————————— No housing problem is of greater importance than that which arises when there are not enough school rooms to survive was extraordinary. And all they Sunday Morning BAMIOn. | jad to eat and drink was s bit of WASHINGTON, D. C. |chocolate and a few pints of ofly en- " gine-cooling water. SATURDAY. .September 26, 1931 |° o 25kt Gt aring 1l d‘;""‘ that they are going to try again. Such '.ul_onon ‘W. NOYES. .. .Editor 1506 10 08 Vhe Biksies. Boh 5k the C spirit of the men who are making his- Tho Evening ""g:;{::’r ::-nn’ tory by thelr venturing and daring and [ ,.L“Q“-fi;.- i fi‘.’;" a%at. |thelr courage, Not that a successtul { m%&. 4" megent M. x‘i-'m"j%{. erossing from Portugal would have been Englan novel or instructive in the advance of ™ — crossing % Bate by Carrier Within the city. | SUNIEE T SO0 O prlerenhuiess ShinE Sra" Gundey mr:::::::::: of the heavier-than-air ship as w’i‘?«nflh-‘u’l’u‘i e onty | PFActical, regular means of transport o Bndny BT . Per month | between the continents. . s gade i D sl ders ey, e sert 1n by mall of te 2 ATE The League and Manchuria. Mail—Payable in Advance, What President Hoover has termed nd and - Virginia, “the mobilized opinion of the world” iy - Sl has prevented—at least for the time sy only 1 being—a state of war in Manchuria. Other nada. Japan has announced its purpose of i T 1,n completing the withdrawal of troops 132 | trom the troubled area and to do noth- — ing ‘to aggravate the situation there. ‘Member of the Associated Press. This is in pursuance of the representa- “The Associated 15 exclysively ertitled | tions made to the Japanese government -1 m’.“:fl#’ T 'l’t co'}":;". ‘.’z‘mler ":rdflla- by the Council of the League of Na- ESd i 35l waver and ol P26, 0681 2% | tons and. subsequently by the United ESbdoh i Aol FlEbush | tons and subsequently by the Unlted _—_—————————— e Tokio and Nanking governments. The international demand for peace, voiced Defend the Treasury. thus in unmistakable terms, has pre- President Hoover has agein sounded | vajled. It is wholly unlikely that either & warning that this is no time to seek | of the parties to the Manchurian con- new and added appropriations from the | troversy will dare wantonly to flout the Federal Treasury. Taking the action lworld's will by letting their quarrel of the American Legion in’declining | smolder into war. %o urge further cash payments on the | yess satisfactory than the preserva- soldiers’ bonus certificates as his text, | tion of peace is the aftermath at the Chief Executive has told other or- | Geneva. The League Council last night ganizations to follow in the footsteps of | rejected China's plea for an immediate the World War Veterans. How strongly ! inquiry into the Manchurian fracas by such a warning may be needed, the|an jmpartial commission. The Council President said, is indicated by the fact | approved Japan's proposal of direct that during the last Congress 271 bills | negotiations with China, devold of for different projects were introduced|League intervention, to which the Tokio in that body, refefred to executive de-|government flatly demurred. Dr. Sze, partments, and by those departments|China’s representative on the Council, were disapproved, calling for total new as firmly resented Japan's attitude, de- sppropriations of about $6,000000,000. | claring that the “invasion” of Man- Many of these measures were, the Pres- | churia by Japanese troops makes direct jdent said, sponsored by organizations | negotiation impossible. of American citizens. ‘The ways of the League frequently The President said that the White | pass comprehension, noble in motive as Mouse already has received copies of | that experiment in international con- resolutions adopted by many organiza- | ciliation frequently proves itself to be. tions and approved by many individ-|Viscount Cecil, speaking for the Coun- uals calling for greatly increased ap- cil, sald that, according to Article 11 of propriations. It is obvious that the |the covenant, under which the Chinese drives for funds from the Treasury for appealed, the Council had done its duty all kinds of projects, some of them for | in keeping the dogs of war chained up. eonstruction of huge projects and|The British statesman added that if others for governmental services intend- China wishes the League further to in- ed to become permanent, are in the tervene, Nanking would have to come making. The - pressure that will be |into court under Article 15, which makes brought upon members of Congress, in- | intervention obligatory. . This article dividually and collectively, to support | Provides that the Council may refer a measures advanced by the organiza- dispute to the League Assémbly at the tions sponsoring them will be énormous, | Tequest, of either party. Dr. Sze, China's # The same pressure will be exerted upon | Well remembered former Minister to the the executive. branch of the Govern-|United States, indicated that China meat. %udbly"(;cxl; l':ke the course at which iscount inted. "The effort of the President now is to | Vil PRI Rl L KA fire negotiations in Europs; Asia and | America, designed to avert» hostilities in Manchuria on a truly war-like scale, |one has discerned the unwillingness of Japan to appear to be dragooned into composing ‘her differences with China. ;| It is “fage” which Tokio, in accord with f with Japan in the League of Nations. that the more The Chinese, at the end of three years’ with such | °fforts, have only recently attained i possible membership on the Council, admittedly for the main purpose of utilizing that | There was & man who loafed so much { status as a more effective means of call | ironing out China’s perennial difficuities the with Japan than direct diplomatic the | de8lings. It becomes plain that the . | Japanese, on their part, are not in mood to permit the Chinese to accomplish, by way of Geneva, what China lacks, in momentum of her own, whenever her interests collide with those of her more powerful neighbor. — e Veterans, aside from patriotic feeling, may regard a bonus certificate in the tically supporting new projects which hand as worth one or two checks in full the Government is asked fo finance. settlement, under circumstances that In his statement Mr. Hoover divided |may easily lead to light-hearted squan- the new appropriations demanded of | dering. Congress fes; —— ————————— :;‘l:::u in ,,mc‘.fi:e :&f;mt:n An claborate funeral for a deceased is expressed in the bill, and, second, gangster may mean less as a tribute to those which would result in a continu- the departed than as s magnificent ing and annual expenditure. In the floral demonstration in hcnor of the first class were demands for appropria- | successor who had him put on the spot. . tions amounting to $4,900,000,000; in RIS % the second class were requests for an-| Dry sentiment now frankly admits nual expenditures amounting to $1,200,- fear that a new kind of flood sufferers 000,000, It is this second class of de- will be in evidence if a torrent of alco- mands, calls upon the Government for | hol breaks thrcugh the prohibition dam. annual contributions, that is most men- N a7 A ¢ acing to the governmental finances. In Confusion Worse Confounded. ten years, the billion two hundred mil- lion dollars would multiply into twelve : billions of dollars. It is these projects calling for permanent annual appro- 4 priations which have gradually caused © the expenses of Government to rise in this country to undreamed-of limits. “There must be a halt to these new ap- propriations unless the people of the country are to be permanently bowed “umder the weight of heavy and heavier | taxes. ————— Bxtremes meet when conflict arises ‘between a three per cent beer stein and the flery half jar of bootleg alcohol. ——psiatie Saved From the Sea. Sitting for one hundred and fifty- _eight hours on the wreckage of a plane in midocean is not the sort of ad- venture that is to be craved by even the most intrepid and fearless of men. Especially when the food supply con- sists of seven ounces of milk chocolate and the drinking water is nine litres of the cooling fluid from the engine, this for three men. . This was the experience of Rody, Johanssen and Viega, the German- Portuguese tri> who have just been brought to New York after a rescue off Cape Race. They had been trying to fiy from Portugal to America. They ran into heavy weather, their fuél sup- ply was depleted, they shifted course in the hope of reaching land, and just The policy of the Public Utilities Commission, as laid down in its order of July 15, is to clear the congested area of curbstone bus terminals and prevent their loading and unloading | within this area. Yet, on September 21, the Public Util- | ities Commission issued permits for two { new Interstate bus lines to follow routes through the congested area and to use street bus terminals already established at 1349 E street and on Twelfth street, between Pennsylvania avenue and D street. The Public Utilities Commission may plead that these permits are not in- consistent with its policy, in that the terminals are old terminals and that all of these old terminals must be abandoned before the middle of next July. But the Public Utilities Commission knows, better than anybody else, the nature of the fight it has on its hands in enforcing its order for the abandon- ment of street terminals. The bus com- panies, as far as there are indications to the contrary, ere not going to leave their free curbstone space in the con- gested area and build off-street termi- nals elsewhere without putting up a battle. 1s the commission, therefore, making its task any easier or lessening in any way the congestion that besets down- town trafic by permitting more con- gested district bus routes and encourag- . miseed it by & comparatively short|ing the use of congested district strect distance. Then their plane settled to the surface and they began to drift. were very lucky in that their . The: ‘were sighted by a Just & bit of flotsam on the surface all. Scores of a few miles, as ‘That this tiny speck on the face §f the le. " effective. ‘The policy should already be dis- in effect. Every efort chould be made y were again’l terminals? It is reasonable to set down a date for the abandonment of street terminals in the congested area and then permit the increased use of such terminals in‘ advance of the effective date? ‘The Public Utilities Commission is merely complicating an already compli- cated situation by departing from a tion that the order has not yet become take care of -the pupils. e Ajg a fashion plate, Jimmy Walker will hardly succeed in remodeling Tammany headdress tp the extent of making the beret replace the old war bonnet. ———— SHOOTING STARS. EVENING STAR, ¢tows tested for tuberculosis. So much |bO; BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. It must be a great deal of fun to be a high school boy these days. One can be so absurd, without dis- favor. In the old days boys were supposed to be more or less sedate, by the time they got to h school. But todey the boys act sillier and sillier, it seems to us. Maybe we are getting older and older? Righto, as the English are supposed to say! Growing older—one never says old, any more, of course—is an unfortunate fact of Nature, which nevertheless has its good points. Age seems to whet memory. Perhaps time-whetted memory is not always accurate, but we will wager on this one: That the high school kids of today, especially the boys, are vastly more foolish in their public conduct, than the youngsters of yester-year. W ‘What makes us think this was the conduct of 10 boys and girls on & pub- lic vehicle the other afternoon. Now it always.was true, as v‘” recall, that an entire street car full of school children would create quite an uproar. Yes, we did it, too. One of the favorite stunts in the old days was to rock the car. This was achieved by a platform full of boys, all rocking up and down on their toes in unison. The first thing the motorman and conductor knew, the car was off the rails. It was a simple and convincing dem- onstration of the old theorem that in unity there is strength. It made one believe the statement, contained in many works of physics, that it is possible to tear a bridge down by finding the key-note of the struc- ture and playing it vehemently on a violin. EE 1t took a car load, however, to de- stroy the peace and quiet of a public vehicle full of ordinary home-going le. p«'}gn boys and girls can do it, now- adays. ’Tsl:ml 10 can do what it took 50 to achieve some 20 years or so 8go. Maybe that's what is called progress. There were 6 boys and 4 girls. As far as we could discover, the boys did not know the girls. The former took possession of the sideway seat at the front of the car and of the first seat behind it. ‘The girls sat across the aisle and fur- nished a sort of smiling accompani- ment for the boys, who appeared’ to bask under the rays, although pretend- ing not to notice them. 1t seemed impossible for the girls not to grin whenever any one or more of the boys said anything ar did anything. And they were saying and doing a-plenty, of course. * kK % Each boy had a handful of soda fountain straws. Some drug store lost money on those ys. These straws were being used in place of that ancient funmaker, a blade of grass. In the old days some boys in every school were renowned for their ability to make squawking noises with a simple blade of grass. ‘The blade was held mysteriously in the hollow of the hand, ‘the fist clenched, and then the breath blown into the hollow in a certain way. Just how it was done we are unable to explain at this late date, for we were among the unhappy majority who never quite got the knack of it. We could spin tops excellently and shoot marbles (preferably alleys, as they were called) tolerably, but when it came to squawking with a blade of | grass we failed miserably. The boys on the street car were blowing down the straws upon the sounding board of the clenched palm of the hand. ‘The noises produced by this act were at once diverting, weird, and, it must g‘:nglflmd. a trifle disconcerting at Each variation was applauded with shrieks and whoope, " T7 The master of these queer instru- ments was a big-mouthed lad with a sideways twist to his lips. We thought this gave him a decided advantage, but he made the most of it. The program which he rendered, cov- ering some 5 miles of travel, ranged from a sound somewhat resembling & pig_under a fence to an approximation of Sousa’s “Stars and Stripes Forever.” His n?surplm, however, was a per- fect playing of what used to be known as the hooch-a-ma-kooch, an ingrati- n‘t;lex;g :‘:a e?—‘v ;\el:flz 'hkih by no ma?nl e malign reputation Which it achieved. e * K % % ‘We were delighted to find this old glem a favorite with the rising genera- tion. ‘Together with “Hail, Hail, The Gang's All Here,” it may be regarded as the perennial favorite of boydom. And in this the boys are right, for both are mighty good tunes. Few youngstres—or their elders, for that matter—know that the “Gang's All Here” song is taken almost note for note from a chorus in Sullivan’s “Pirates of Penzance.” It is a good tune, yes, but why it should have become so over- whelmingly popular with the under- graduates of the United States is some- thing of a mystery. It may be added that the rather striking interrogation which follows immediately after the announcement of the completion of the group. ‘s not in the original rendition. * koK What athazed some of old-timers on that car was the perfect uproar which thoss few boys kept up incessantly, After each straw was blown on a few times, it becomes too wet, and was dis- carded for a fresh one by the simple expedient of tossing it into the air and permitting the wind to carry it out the window. If it side-swiped some one in its pas- sage, well, so much the better. Har! Har! Har! Usually the moist end of the straw managed to drag itself across a passen- ger's face, much to the dismay of the said old fogy, and tremendously to the :‘;‘h of the occasion for the boys and When this little amusement palled, straight yelling was induiged in. * * ‘We hope we have not given the im- pression that these boys were anything out of the usual. ‘They scemed perfectly normal young- .| ing. much who minded it, if any. Everybody tried not to mind. Sickly smiles of appreciation wreathed a few faces, but it was plainly manifested that most of the other'ridérs wished the kids would pipe down. ‘What struck us most about those boys was their willingness to be absorbed in themselves. In passing over a bridge which is being rebuilt, one of the most interesting pleces of construction in Washington, not a one of the boys man- ifested the slightest interest. ‘They had an opportunity to see labor in action, skill united to science, the power of muscle and brain in co-ordi- nation— And they sat and blew on straws. And then all of a sudden we thought to ourself,” “Why, you fool,” they are nothing but big babies, after all.” And we felt ashamed of ourself, and looked out the window at the steel workers. And one steel worker winked at us solemnly, and we winked back. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Neglects. He never did a thing worth while. The shadow he would seek to clutch; ‘The substance made him only smile, And as the records are unrolled Of deeds unworthy or sublire, His story thus each day is told: “You're wasting time! You're wasting time!"” Another man there was whose way ‘Was conscientious and severe. For him each hour,of every day With grave reminders would draw near. He scorned the jest that lightly sped, The passing joke, the careless rhyme. For him likewise the record read: “You're wasting time! You're wasting time!” Mental Immunity. “Before that colleague of yours gets | through he'll say something hell be sorry for.” “I have my doubts” said Senator Sorghum. “It takes a considerable de- | {a man to know when it's time to be sorry.” Merriment. “Bliggins always laughs heartily when he tries to tell a funny story.” “He is quite right,” declared Miss Cpyenne. “When he tells a funny story ' 1f's a great practical joke on the person who has to listen.” The Mild Heathen. | “Why do the heathen rage?” said we. A heathen said, “I do not see ! Why people fiercely civilized At our slight rage should be surprised!” Discipline. “Why don't you send your boy Josh to college?” “I'm goin' to,” replied Farmer Corn- tossel. “Not that I think a college edu- cation is necessary for success in life, but I want to get Josh cornered some place where he'll be compelled to ad- { mit there are a few things he doesn't know.” Machinery. The Government is a machine, An intricate affair; Sometimes it rides along serene, Sometimes it calls for care. A few skilled workmen must be found To tend the running gear, While thoughtless people stand around And try to interfere. “De man dat don’t earn his salt,” said Uncle Eben, “is very often de one dat’s mos’ partic’lar 'bout havin' beefsteak an’ ple.” = ) ——— Needed There. Prom the San Antonio Evening News. The bull that invaded a Pltulmr&h railroad station should have been di- rected to the stock exchange. ——o—s A Field of Study. Prom the Ashland (Ky.) Dally Independent. whe‘n“ J:l sign says stop. e Forecast. Prom ths Ashland (Ky.) Daily “ dependent. this' day o i B gree of intellectual perception to enable | |British Navy Strike Stirs | more or less passive-resistance strike of a portion of the English Navy are still echoing around the world. Sympathy seems torn between the plight of the government which necessitated the drastic cuts that brought on the up rising and the present and prospective hardships of the seamen. Seeking causes, the Springfield (Mass.) Union says: “The men, poorly paid at best, according to American standards, say they are fighting, not for them- selves, but for their wives and children ashore, who, it is represented, ‘would be unable to subsist on the pay remaining after the cut went into effect. v".K'he!r case is one to excite sympath: con- tinues this paper, it remarks elso that “to say that the incident has shaken England out of a good deal of is smug complacency is to_express it mildly.” The Asbury Park Evening Press finds it “disquieting to learn that Great Britain's financial difficulties have fhreatened its prestige to the point where even the King's seamen show signs of discontent.” while the Cincin- nati Times-Star thinks that “the en- couraging thingZabout the British naval strike is that Great Britain is a de- mocracy. There is no autocrat for the tineers to sh 3 g}gyment of sailors and their pay is business.” pu:;hl:ndicatlve of changes in the times, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette notes that “in an earlier day it is likely that the harsher term ‘mutiny’ would have been employed, and the responsible officers would have endeavored to carry out their orders no matter what the attend- ant risks might have been, or havi expected to face a court-martial on their return.” Because of the sanity and patience with which the govern. ment has met the situation, the New London Day thinks “there is no need to worry over the ffair becoming a general uprising.” As the Buffalo Ev ning News views the matter: “The men make it clear that they still are loyal subjects. If they offend British tradi- tion in one respect they are true to it.in the respect that they have kept their poise—they do not Tesort to disorder to enforce their demands.” “Nevertheless, even though the sailors have a just grievance, the world does not expect men with the traditions of the British Navy behind them, with its fine discipline and authority, to take a means of protest that would not seem strange in a backward or undeveloped country,” says the Providence Evening Bulletin. Referring to the British Navy, the Goshen News-Times says: “For the British Navy to revolt s unthinkable. It is by far the greatest navy in the world, for generations looked upon with envy and copied after by other nations. It has been the pride and bulwark of the empire, and its loyalty and trust- worthiness has never been questioned. News that the American Navy had re- volted could scarcely have been more astounding.” “Even in a thoroughly disciplined navy and army, a government, it seems, may go too far,” notes the Savannah Morning News, and the Cleveland News suggests that “though the world does not believe that the MacDonald economy am is in any danger, outside opin- ion cannot but incline to the view that in the case of the sailors, at least, the proposed wage cuts have been too dras- fic.” Pointing to certain discrepancies, which are to the effect that “the pay of | %0 midshipmen, most of whom come from families of means, was cut herdly at all,” while “the pay of able seamen was oot at,” since ‘the em-'| Sympathy for Both Sides Reverberations of the bombshell cu‘ into the British budget plans by the’ 8 share of the economy burden, the British tars are not willing to bear L i 1t is | equitably distributed among all % The New York Sun, likewise, feels that | ‘the British sailor probably is as ready to take his share of the proposed equal sacrifice” all around as his brother ashore, but he would not be human if | he did not resent and work against what | he considered an unfair distribution of | the burden.” Speaking from the sailor's point of iew, the Hartford Daily Times states: “Under a volunteer system we would |suppose that when men enlist in the army or navy during times of peace it |is at least upon the plainly implied | moral contract of the government that | the pay inducements offered at the time jof enlistment shall be maintained until | the expiration of the term of service. | To cut down the pay of the men with. out giving them a free opportunity to |leave the service at once would suggest a form of servitude altogether incon- | sistent with the spirit of the law.” | .. “Even if, as the admiralty points out, | the cut in wages affected only their | substantive pay, which Is a small part | of their total emoluments, the fact still | remains that an implied contract be- tween them and the government was ored,” also insists the Manchester Union, and the Rockford Register-Re- public states that “the new schedule | means a life of hardship for the sailor {and his family will be made still harder.” | As is pointed out by the Charleston (8. C.) Evening Post, “At any rate, the power of passivity has been strikingly | | demonstrated in the case of the naval strike. It is virtually invincible.” This paper continues: “Action may be met with action and the strongest side will prevail, but what is to be done against | passivit; and declares that “inertia is the greatest of all forces, paradoxical as may be.” However, “if there is an- | other ‘mutiny in the British Navy the | guilty men will have to suffer the con- | sequences,” according to the Newport | News Daily Press, which quotes Sir | Austen Chamberlain as saying: “The | past is past. It is in the interest of the | men in the navy and those outside the navy to forget it.” “The government demands retrench- ment all around, and the future de- | pends upon the spirit in which the de- mands are met,” says the Hamilton | (Ontario) Spectator. Even so, “the Eshlvers will not stop running up and | down the spines of upper-caste Britons for a long, long while,” predicts the | Des Moines Tribune-Capital. — A Boob's Misfortune. Prom the Sloux City Journal. Gypsies gypped a millionaire out of $200 when he asked them to tell his fortune, but somehow. or other sym- | pathy for him does not well up and overflow. He should have known better. A o Swapping. From the Bloomington Pantagraph. Now that Uncle Sam has traded wheat to Brazil for coffee, we are ex- pecting the militant wets to come for- ward with a Prapo:lfion to trade cotton to Germany for beer. B — ¢1lliteracy and Salesmanship. From the Columbus Ohio State Journal. Considering the slight attention paid to “No Agents” signs, we e one of the requisites to becoming & house-to-! selesman is the inability read. ————— Not Easy Here Either Way. Prom the Omaha World-Herald. Pt Ry ol "&;‘-‘:f:'f e w! B with represenia- o e I T, iy sters, having a gcod time, and not mind- | | WASHINGTON, D. €, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1931. THIS AND THAT THE LIBRARY TABLE By the Booklover The title, “The Caliph of Bagdad,” which the most recent biographers of O. Henry, Robert H. Davis and Arthur B. Maurice, give to their biography indicates their point of view, that they are dealing with an Arabian' Nights personage. They begin their foreword lw“hd;:m last words of O. l-gler:}l;x ;‘o 1l;c lay ng, 21 years a - clinic Hospital, New‘{'ork. “His “last jesting words were in echo of & POFH- lar song of the hour. There are two versions of the exact phrasing. On was that it began, ‘Pull u,:l the shades’; the other, “Turn up the lights’ Then as both agree, he continued: ‘I don't want to go home in the dark’ In that little conflict of evidence we have one aspect of his life in epitome.” The four parts of the blography are headed by Arablan Nights story titles: Nlddln, Smb?&, Haroun, Scheherezade. William Sidney Porter, known as O. Henry, during reconstruc- tion days in North Carolina; his young manhood in Texas, his growing fame as a caricaturist, his marriageto his boyhood sweetheart, his position in the First National Bank of Austin, Tex., which was to end so tragically; the discovery of irregularities in his bank accounts, his wife's death, the begin- ning of his nzvvm: r work and his crucial error in from his trial for embezzlement. * ok % The first part of this biography of O. Henry is preliminary to his om - ing a striking figure in American lit- erature. The second part, “Sindbad,” tells of his flight to Central America, what is known of his life there, his re- turn to Austin to stand trial, his con- viction and term in the Ohio Peni- tentiary, his release after three years and three months, his establishment in New York, his second marriage. Part three, “Haroun,” tells of his New York life and his success as a shorte story writer. Part four, “Scheherezade,” is an account of the stories of O. Henry and their backgrounds, how they came to be written. With regard to O. Henry's prison sentence and the question of his guilt, the present au- thors say: “More than 33 years have passed since Will Porter stood trial in Austin. The judge and the prose- cuting attorney are dead. The writers of this book would like nothing bet- ter than to remove forever the last stigma, the last doubt, hrnuhln{‘ O. Henry’'s memory, But the clinching documentary ~evidence necessary for that has not been. forthcoming. Yet the conceded facts are enough to Justify posterity in rendering the ver- dict ‘not guilty.’” * * ok The story of O. Henry's daughter Margaret, as told in “The Caliph of Bagdad,” 'is a sad one. “From both sides she inherited the scourge of phthisis. ‘Like both parents, she died ‘Naturally she had wanted to i As ‘Miss O. Henry’ she was . But she never went far Margaret married first Oscar , the cartoonist. But it was not a happy marriage and after a time the two perted. She was struggling along, hUDUl,I to_do something worth while with her pen, when her fatal inheri- tance became her chief problem. Doc- tors told her that she must go to the desert, to a land of dry winds and warm sunshine. She left New York for the Pacific Coast, staying at Reno a suf- ficient time to obtain a divorce from Cesare. fornia. took a higl her friends there, a young Englishman named Guy Sartin, insisted on going with her to find her a home and to look after her welfare. A plot of ground was bought at the town of Benning and a bungalow was buflt. There, .at an_altitude of about 2500 feet, in a valley between Mount San Jacinto and Mount San Gorgonio Pass, Margaret Porter spent the last two years of her life. Sartin lived nearby and came every day to read to her. Three days before her death she and Sartin were married. She had a pretty new bed jacket made for a wedding gown and he gathered roses from the garden. A few neighbors were wit- nesses. “To her husband of those three days she left everything—her share in the royalties from O. Henry's books, her hillside home and all its belongings, her unfinished manuscripts, one of them being half a volume of a memoir dealing with her father, and her wed- ding gown, the one of black lace over pink chiffon which sHe wore only on her deathbed.” * * k ok Katherine Mayo does not meekly ac- cept criticism of her denunciation of child marriage in India, especially wheh she can prove her statements. Entirely unsubdued by the vehement denials and execrations, chiefly from Indian writers, which followed her ‘Mother Indiz,” she comes back with another book on the same subject, ‘'Volume Two,” which contains a mass of new evidence. Following the publi- cation of “Mother India,” probably at least partly as a result of it, the Age of Consent Committee of the Indian Legislature began to collect evidence !and finally printed many pages of tes- timony and a report to the Legislature, “Volume Two” quotes word-for-word extracts from this testimony. The judgment of the committee is shown by the sentence in its report: “Every suc- ceeding generation of men and women in India realizes that it is weaker than any preceding generation.” In 1920 a law was enacted prohibiting marriage of a girl under 14, but unfortunately the law did not invalidate a marriage violating the law; it simply imposed a fine. According to Hindu evidence; |as an additional marriage expense. The bride becomes the property of the hus- band when the fine is paid. Miss Mayo presents evidence of many cases of this kind. * ok ok % If world disarmament should ever become an actual fact, instead of a pious hope, the industries which engage in the manufacture of arms should be fairly dealt with, says Victor Lefebure in his book, “Scientific Disarmament.” “It would be absurd,” he argues, “to color any policy of compensation or adjustment by the suggestion of the supposed reprehensible characteristics of the armament industry. These firms have operated in a legitimate manner and have given their nations and the world the services required of them with great zeal and efficiency. The situation is simply that an industry with important vested and widespread interests finds itself threatened by new forms of irternational policy and organ- jzation.” Exactly this same argument might, and probably should, have been used with regard to the slavery ques- tion in our country. A “fake” diary which still hasmuch of authenticity has been prepared by Dr. G. B. Harrison from source ma- terial of the Elizabethan age. His first volume appeared some time ago and now the second, “A Second Eliza- bethan Journal,” has been published. Tt is a record “of those things most talked of during the years 1595-1598." The sources used are credited in notes, In the diary appear anxiety about the: succession to the throne, rumors of another Spanish Armada attack, stories of London riots and chronic revolts in TIreland, harrowing tales of highwaymen| and marauding bands, fears of the Jesuits, notes on executions at Tyburn, reports of the arrival in London. of. prizes of the sea captured by English privateers, There is also plenty of gos- sip about the relation of Essex to the Queen, the doings of village witches, dramatic censorship and court and | private scandals. * K ko . ton Sfrachey, blographer of Queen !u’;%:eth and yQueen Victoria, has turned to smaller game in Dis "Por; traits in Minjature and Qther Essays. Some of his portraits are of Sir John Elizabethan, the Puritan the Abbe Morellet (friend wtnh . M Barty, %m-n-edmm | many Hindus merely consider the fine- whom; ter ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERI! Have we had the pleasure of serving you through our Washington Informa- tion Bureau? Can't we be of some help to you in your problems? Our business is to furnish you with au- thoritative information, and we invite vou to ask us any question of fact in which you are interested. Send your inquiry to' The Evening Star Informa- tion Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Di- rector, Washington, D. €. Inclose 2 cents in coin or stamps for return postage. Q. What is an aerostat’—W. H. R. A. A lighter-than-air craft, such as a balloon, is an aerostat. Q. How many people are employed on the public roads in the United States?—R. A. H. A, About 300,000. Q. Were the records of birth and death San Francisco destroyed in the earthouake and fire in 1906?—R. M. A. All local birth records were de- stroyed except those from July 1, 1905, to March 31, 1906. Many of the death records are missing. Some were saved. A list of these may be secured from the Department of Public Health of San Francisco. Q. Please give the mottoes of the City of London and of Oxford Uni- versity —G. L. , A. The motto of the City of London is “Domine dirige nos” (Lord, direct us). The motto of Oxford is “Dominus illuminatio mea” (the Lord is my light). Q. Has a change been made so that minor children of aliens are not nat- uralized by their father’s naturaliza- tion?—J. W. A N6 change has been made. minor child of an allen is included -in the naturalization of his father, pro- vided the child resides in this country . What is the term for & who tells pointless lies?>—A. E. J A. A popular term is inveterate liar. The technical term for a person who ltes without apparent objeet and «for which he seems to have an irresistible person K . Who originated the expression n is king?"—G. H. Y." ° premion i . & sposkh Tasae n-the a Senate on March 4, 1858, by Senator James H. Hammond of South Carolina. Q. If Al Capone got all that was coming to him for dodging income taxes what would- he get?—D. F. A. If convicted in -the pending in- come tax case the maximum penalty that might be inflicted on Capane would be 32 years' imprisonment and a fine of $80,000. Q. Do people of moderate means pay: higher taxes in England than people with the same income in the | United. States?—B.: T. * A. British taxes are much er. In the United States. a man (2 wife and two -young children and am income of $4,000 pays no income tax. In the same situation in England he would pay $708.20. & Q. Ca ) n a brother secure the entrance of his sister to this country -outside the quota’—P. D. & y -A: A brother is not entitled to re- quest' the entry of his sister outside f | of the legal immigration quota. Q. How long does it take a bill to “We all could and should be icebergs and bathe all the year round, according to some Sydney doctors. . One doctor said that during the influenza epidemic none of his Spar- tan friends was affented. - Another sgreed that round-the-year bathers usually escaped sickness by thefr hardi- hood. To_all of which we say, “Bunkum!” The icebergs are not conspicuous] healthy because they are they are icebergs because healthy. Maori lady who ran her so close here, they can take liberties with their bod- !ies that would kill others. This habit | of confusing cause and effect isn’t con- fined to the medical profession, though | the doctors, for some reason, often do it. Sydneyites are always saying. “Australian men are god-like crea- ; look at the life-saving teams on They seem to forget that youths figures. to show off naturally gravitéte to surf beaches and that the lifesavers are the piek of them. ‘When Northcliffe saw some photo- graphs of naked diggers on Gallipoli HE BULLETIN, Sydney, N.S. W. —According to the Sydney Sun: icebergs; the; glorious men Australians are!” Bunk- um again! In the first place the nom- inal rolls of the first Diyvy show that nearly 30 per cent were British-born; in the second place, the A. I. F..Was more or less picked for physique, at any rate in the early stages of the w finally, only 50 per cent of it, consisf ing roughly of the fittest men, were put in the front line. To draw physical deductions from jcebergs. Diggers, surfers, etc., s _equivalent to judging the English, physically, by the Life Guards, or intellectually by bers of the Athenaeum Club, R ‘Would Display Mexican Products for Benefit of Americans. El Universal, Mexico City—The min- istry of industry and commerce is ar- ranging to adopt the suggestion of the Nogales «(Sonaro) Chamber of Com- merce and will establish there a per- manent exhibition of Mexicen art, in- dustry and manufactures. It is be- lieved that such a display of Mexican products will be very valuable in ac- quainting Americans’ who visit this | border town with the wide range of commodities that are raised or manu- factured in the neighboring republic. Nogales is an important junction for Americans entering the State of So- nora in conjunction with their mining, frequently these visitors remain ignor- ant of the progress and industry of | Mexico in other sections of her terri- tory. B City Unable to Give Further Aid to Business. Cologne Gazette—Small shop-keepers and others employing a few persons in their establishment have been besieg- ing the officials in the Town Hall at Hagen asking loans or similar assist- ance in keeping their businesses oper- been rendered to tide these concerns | over more critical periods, but all ap- gllmnu now are advised that such elp can no longer be rendered despite | the desire of the officials to keep such | establishments solvent. The city al-| ready has sustained a deficit of five million marks in its budget, and fur- ther contributions to business enter- germ. are out of the question. en pointed out, however, would be quite'as expedient for the | corporal to neur further mdebt.«ti- ness assisting the employers as to| refuse further aid, and have their em- es “dbm:"“h ters’ ‘gpend;:ls public charges, with perhaps greater outlays of money for thelr sus- tenance. Newton, and Emmanuel de Coulanges, cousin of Madame de Sevigne. These names do not arouse in us Tesponse, ‘None of them is A | 000 miles. 'y are Like Miss Gleitze, .and the | de he is said to have exclaimed: “What | agricultural and other interests, but | | ating. Heretofore such assistance has |} C J. HASKIN. pass both houses of Congress?—W. B. C. A. There is no stipulated time ree quired for the passage of any particue {lar bill after its introduction in the House of Representatives or the Sometimes a bill is passed in a relas tively short time. Q. What is the name of the woman who is called Lady Edison?—T. O'B. - A. Beulah Louise Henry is some- times given this title. She has 42 inventions to her ecredit. Q. Who was the first American killed in the Revolutionary War?—M. E. A. The “History of the Pight at Concord,” by Ezra Ripley, published at Concord in 1827, says: “In a minute or two the Americans, being in quick action and within 10 or 15 rods pf the bridge, a single gun was fired by & British' soldier, which marked its way, passing under Col. Robinson's arm, slightly wounding the side of Luther Blanchard, a fifer in the Action - pany. This gun was instantly followed by a volley, which killed Capt. Davis and Mr. Hosmer, both of the same company.” Q. For whom _was Mount Everest named?—W. E. E. A. Mount Everest was named for Sir George Everest, famous British surveyor general of India. Q. Is there homestead land avaflable in Alaska’—E, E. B, A. There is. Q. Is the sun nearer the United in Winter than it is in Sume mer?—W. N. B. ¢ A. It is nearer the entire world. On January 1 the distance is about 91,300,« 000 miies, while on July 1, is is 94,400, In January, earth is so to the plane of its ecliptic that the Northern Hemisphere, wh:f.l includes the United States, receives slanting rays of the sun. This causes the cold weather. In July the Northern Efi"““’g\. here receives the direct rays of n. Q. Of what material s the Lincoly Memorial in Hodgenville, Ky, built? perfect ure?—R. N. T. A. The St. Chapelle in Paris. ‘was built by Louis IX in 1245, Q. What is the highest mountain situated upon an island?—G. V. O. A. The hest. island moun! in the world is Maunia Kea in the Hawai- ian Islands, with an altitude of 13,828 feet above sea level. 4 MA' tmeA~ I'!Al:l. muhlq AAll:n Royge or v, . used- by Hawthorne. ‘Q What kind “of & Bull use?—P. D. was made (1532) with elegdnt venuto Cellini. It is now in at Bergen, Norway. gs the museum Highlights on the Wide World Excerpts From' Newspapers of Other Land America No Longer ¥ El Dorado for Irishmen. . - Irish Independent, Dublin—Probably for the first time on record.imthigra- tion into the Irish Free State exceeds emigration from this country. This is accounted for by the fact that emigra- tion ‘to the United States has almost ceased and many- young Irish men and women who went fo Amirica during the past few years are returning to the land of their birth. e g Ty Myt R for change in the flo: of o tion. ‘The warnings of the Independ- ents to intend emigrants have been | fully justified. Te is no em ent, and no prospect of employmes for new arrivals in America. Most d the two ., Fiad 1o be home again. Tho scrape up ) enough to can the fare or are fo te hnnmfilnm% is no longer the El Doradoe | which_Irishmen so long I‘l:.ved it to be. The Irish Free State y not. as pi rous as we would wish, | econemic conditions are not as had :fi" as_they are in most other es. Neues Wiener Tagblatt, Vienna—" Berlin ‘Boersencourier suggests that way of honoring the service and interest of Hoover one of the principal strests or squares of Berlin be named after him. The mayor of Berlin is hea: in' favor of rendering this token ‘of esteem and recommends that Vienna, whose people are equally grateful, similar action in perpetuating name of Hogver. * k% ¥ Tourists to Mexico Miss Historic Building. : El Universal, Mexico City—Most of the tourists coming to Mexico see the most famous and obvious buildings in the country, but often fail to visit other structures less celebrated, but perhaps even more surrounded with piet: e and historic interest. In this laf category is the old Monastery of San Agustin de Acolman. It is about 30 miles from the capital and was built by Augustine friars about 1550. Parts of the church rfi:d of the adjacent struc- tures, including the granary, refectory {and kitchen, are still in an excellént state of preservation. Until recently the mud and, dust deposits of the centuries covered, al t to the upper strata ‘of the building, the fine carvings, mold- ings and frescoes now restored to light Ly excavations. There have also béen restored to the library of the institution numerous old volumes bound in sheep- skin and containing, in the Latin tongue, a complete record of the build- ing and other annals in the life of this interesting institution, written in clear characters by these monastic pioneers. These vaults and hal's, silent for cen- turies, arc awakening in to the sound of human voices and footsteps, Posers. From the Milwatkee Sentinel. We are beginning to find out that some problems can’t be solved by ing resolutions or an tion meeting. Next Year’s Cotton. From the Florence (Ala.) Herald. It looks like nomy for Southern farmers to buy &u cotton next year of raising it. The Leader. Butte Montana Standard. From the with important events or achievements. l.i‘;‘ in the Jgst ucuonwol the b&k . Strachey turn to names bet- s, oy ol Not S