Evening Star Newspaper, October 10, 1931, Page 6

P W S o e e T —————T————— THE EVENING STAR ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY. ....October 10, 1931 — e THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor el ! The Evening Star Newspaper Company ‘Business Office v York Office: go Office: Lake Mic) ean Office: 14 Regent Building. ce. .. London, Engl Rate by Carrier Within the City. ar ... .45¢ per month d Sunday Star 1 ays) . ..60c per month Bunday Sar | ~." 88 per month | tar . 8¢ mer copy | llection made at the and of each month. | Evening & !Venlng x Gers may be semt in by mail or telephone | Ationsl 5000. ' Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. b Maryland and Virginia. Deily and Sunday.....1yr.$10 1mo., 88c BHE BRI CLURE R All Other States and Canada. 5 yr.$1200° 1 ., $1.00 nday only . $500. 1 mo.. c s0c ‘ Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled /40 the use for republication of all news ais- rv.cnes credited to it or not otherwsise cred- & st an nd and d 1vr. this paper and also the local news Souan Pl ATl Fichts of pubiicatios of are ublished herein he: also special dispatches Teserved Caracity to Pay. derlying basis for intergovernmental debt payments in the American concep- ‘tion of the settlement of the war debts. It is to remain the basis if the Hoover administration has its way. A re- announcement of the policy has come from the White House, where it has been made clear that President Hoover has in mind no cancellation of debts owed this country by Great Britain, France and other European nations growing out of the World War. At the same time it is stated that Mr. Hoover ‘has initiated no plan for a general ex- tension of the moratorium as between the governments of these countries and the United States. JThe period of the moratorium, arranged under the leader- ship of President Hoover last Summer, is one year, a term in which the nations have a breathing spell and in which they are expected to make such adjust- ments as are necessary and as may be possible to enable them to meet their obligations. Many questions are advanced today | régarding what may be expected if, when the termination of the morato- rium period has arrived, some of the debtor nations are unable to resume payments. Here again the “capacity to pay” of the nations will be a measur- ing stick. Tt is not the custom of the United States to attempt to extract money from a debtor who is incapaci- tated and unable to pay. If time is necessary to make full payment, it has been granted. But in the end the United States will expect its debtors to pey their debts. Business hetween na- tions and individuals rests upon the recognition of the moral obligation to pay debts. On any other basis busi- ness between nations or individuals would be impossible. If at the end of the moratorium pe- riod it is found impossible for a debtor nation or several of them to meet their annual payments, if their incapacity to pay has been definitely shown, these peyments may be scaled down. But the United States is not inclined to look with favor upon the postponement of payments by its debtors while the debtor nations expend large sums for other. purposes, particularly arma- ments, when the world is seeking less armament in order to lift the tax burden off the backs of the peoples of the world. With this attitide of the United States in mind, the govern- ments of the debtor nations should give careful consideration to their budgets, and particularly to that part of their budgets which covers expenditures for military and naval purposes. e Knowing as he does that the presi- dential responsibility is hard enough as it stands, Mr. Coolidge would naturally be inclined to avold any utterance that might add to the perplexities of a future ineumbent. ————————— Chinese statesmen have in many dis- tinguished instances been minutely and persistently inquisitive. Now they want the U. S. A. to explain some more about the League of Nations. —ret——————— An election in Chile is made especially troublesome by the fact that the fight- ing does not necessarily cease even when the returns have all been counted. ———————— A Topsy-Turvy Election. With the issuance Thursday night of | Conservative and Liberal manifestoes on the heels of Premier MacDonald's appeal election of & national government, eat Britain's parliamentary campaign 48 in full blast. It is a topsy-turvy con- t ‘which will come to an end with llings in the constituencies on Oc- thber 27. Britons are fond of com- ining that American politics passes prehension If ever Americans 1d repay the compliment, it is now, th a three-cornered fight confusing e embittered scene in John Bull's 18and and bafMing all attempts to guers je outcome. 1§ces election day lugubriously. Already y of its members, though they do publicly admit it, deplore the ditch- Ith §The Labor party, which has been in in‘:erente at Scarborough this week, | of Ramsay MacDonald as leader. out him. Labor is shorn of the only capiaincy that gave the party at once dignity, calor and capacity in the high command. Arthur Henderson has or- gapizing skill and a certain driving power, but he is not the inspiring in- fluence that MacDonald is. Yet, de- spjta the schism in the Labor eamp and the loss of the old commander, it may again squeeze into the House of Com- mons. as the plurality, if not the ma- Jorfty. party, and automatically entitled either to be sent for by the King and enfiiisted with formation of & govern- mept, or to be included in it. § was unmistakably with that con- tingency in mind that the Laborites at Scarborough. Thursday overwhelmingly d down a resolution to abstain from icipation in the government unless ed to Parllament by a clear majority. “Uncle Arthur” Henderson declared that while he does not yearn to be: associated with another govern- ment in which Labor sits as a minority, he thinks “it would be a mistake to lay down a rigid rule,”” the future being as inealculable as it is. Labor is not yet ready to turn its back on the fleshpots of office. It reveled in the limelight &2 powe¥, and the perquisites of Down- Y ing street are not to be sneezed at in|the introduction of all kinds of meas- these distressful times. While Labor contemplates the possi- ble loss of fifty of the two hundred- odd seats it held in the late House of Commons, it yet stands to emerge a formidable phalanx, thanks to the aplit tariff ranks which Mr. MacDonald's national government supporters, the Conservatives and the Liberals, present. If Mr. Baldwin's protectionists and Mr. Lloyd George's free traders put up sep- arate candidates against Labor, the So- cialists may win enough trisngular fights, as they did in 1924 and 1029, to come out the strongest individual party in Parliament. “Then,” as Mr. Seldon points out in a cable dispatch to the New York Times, “the country will be | just where it was before, and the election, as well as everything that has happened in the British govern- ment during the past six weeks, would be just wasted time.' Mr. MacDonald has this dire con- tingency in mind in appealing to the country for “national unity.” He asks British voters to elect candidates who will stand by the national government and to give him a mandate “which can be weakened by no faction of opposttion, organized or unorganized.” Failing such a result, Mr. MacDonald frankly foreshadows the possibility of {involving not only Britain, but other “Capacity to pay’ has been the un- | countries “in financial. panics, social distress-and perhaps even revolution.” The country's duty, he says, “is plain— the nation first.” ] Why This Delay? One of the helpful measures taken by the last Congress to eliminate at least one cause for delay in the pur- | chasg of school sites and the construc- ftion of buildings was to make money | appropriated for those purposes “imme- { diately available” upon the President's signing of the bill, instead of wait- | ing for the beginning of the fiscal year. | Among the funds so made available in | the last session of Congress was money for the purchase of a site for & new | senior high school to serve the terri- tory west of Connecticut avenue, thus | relfeving the rapidly increasing conges- tion at Western High School. Now it is learned that the site is still 15 be bought. Assistant Engineer Com- | missioner Robb. in charge of the pur- chase of school sites, explains the delay | by a failure among officials to agree |upon the site. Several locations have been under study. Yet it is learned {that the school officials and the of- | ficials of the N onal and Planning Commission have been | beset by mo such difficulty: that they |are in complete accord as to which site should be tought. The officials at the District Building, therefore, are |e"h" unable to agree among them- selves, or are unable to agree with the school officials and the Park and | Planning Commission. Who are the officials? What is behind their hesi- tation? Was it impossible to smoothe out the trouble last Summer? Are there too many cooks with fingers in the pie? Some of the answers to these ques- tions will presumably be furnished to- day at a conference between the Dis- trict Commissioners and members of the Board of Education. And it is to be trusted that they' will be so satis- factory that actual negotiations for purchase of the site will begin im- mediately. | The necessity of bullding this new high school, which was convincing | enough to satisfy Congress last Winter, is all the more apparent now. Western High School is crowded. A normal in- crease in school population will mean that Western will be forced to a double- shift program in September of 1933 The double shift means part-time classes, or half a day's education in place of the full day to which pupils are entitled. Were the new school site acquired today, the. building to re- lieve crowded conditions at Western could not be completed before February 1, 1835. Now the school officials are naturally fearful that if the site is not bought within a short time they will be unable to obtain from Congress at the coming session an appropriation for prepara- tion of plans. Congress can, with good | reason, accuse District officials of s0 | much delay that their rights to further co-operation in behalf of speed have been forfeited. | The conference today may bring about a settlement of the site question. The land may be bought within a few days. But what the people of the Dis- trict would like to know is why it was not bought last June. Perhaps there is a good reason. If so, it should be made known. The school officials, not responsible for buying land, are to be commended for their efforts to speed up those who do ‘have this responsi- bility. — e Aimee McPherson says she is going “to chase the cevil out of Boston.” The threat sounds courageous. It would have sounded more so had she men- tioned Chicago as her objective. —_— e Next probable move of Al Capone: a protest that the law is trying to put him on the spot. A gang leader is brave only when he holds all the physical advantage. e No Extra Session. It was inevitable that President Hoover's recommendations for legisla- tion designed to help further to stabilize American banking and credit institu- tions weuld bring demands for an ex- tra session of Congress. But the Presi- dent’s recommendations did not end with proposals for legislation. They in- cluded plans for private initiative by the bankers and financiers of America to relieve a situation in which the country is suffering from “frczen” as- sets, running into the hundreds of millions of ‘dollars, held by banks still rolvent. and by closed banks. The President’s proposal that the bankers form immediately a $500,000,000 fund with which to go to the aid of banks having gcod security, although not suf- ficiently liquid, is already being worked out. His recommendation that steps be taken also by the banks to loan to re- ceivers of closed banks a percentage of the value of the securities held by the closed banks, so that depositors might have the benefit of ready cash, is being followed. To call Congress to Washing- ton at a..time when business is seeking to pull itself out of the morass would be a move of questionable wis- dom. 2 The return of Congress to Washing- ton will be occasion for unleashing Ppolitical st It will bring with it Capital Park | | ures, running from a Federal dole for the unemployed to the sppropriation of ‘millions, or even billions, of dollars for Government works, and measures for increased taxes and revision of the tax system. While business is in the throes of reorganization for the better protection of the banking system and its members, with a great need of public confidence to meke their steps increasingly effective, the danger of a return of Congress would be found in the uncertainty and fear it would en- gender in the business world. ‘The regular session of Congress opens December 7, less than two months hence. The interval can well be oc- cupied with the firm organization of the projects now under way and a careful study of the changes which it is proposed to make in the Federal Reserve system and in the law relating to the Federal Land Banks. If the Congress will confine itself, when it does return to Washington, to the business pressing for consideration, in- cluding the changes in the banking laws and the passage of legislation necessary to make effective the year's moratorium of intergovernmental debts, there will be little real loss of time. A contest for control of the House organization between the Republican and Democratic parties is inevitable, with leaders on both sides today claim- ing the advantage. At present there are six vacancles in the House membership, one of which is to be filled at a special election next Tuesday, The Republican strength today is 214 and the Demo- cratic 214, with the Farmer-Labor party having one seat. Of the six va- cancies, four are in Republican districts and two in Democratic. If all these districts run true to form in the coming elections the Republicans will when Congress meets have 218 seats to 216 for the Democrats and one for the Farmer-Labor party. But the Republi- can progressives are restive. Some of them threaten to jump the party reser- vation. The turmoil of House organi- zation would scarcely be a help, with partisan political debate flashing out, when the effort is being made to restore confidence. The promise has been made by lead- ers of both parties to support measures of the character suggested by President Hoover for the improvement of the banking laws. These promises can be carried out just as effectively two months from now as they can today. The restoration of public confidence, however, is even more impsrtant now | than the revision of laws. Bilver advocates engaged in reasoning in practical terms are doubtiess wonder- ing whether they will be expected to start, life over again and try to under- | stand Coin's Financial School. B — Effort will not be relaxed to keep the America’s Cup in this country. A fair contest in & spirit of determination is what Lipton wished. e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Man and the Job. “They told me that I ought to score Five days of work each week; no more. And on these days I ought to fix My hours at eight, or even six. For many an hour I'll feel alone, Away from friends I long have known. I say, as memory brings a sigh, We've been good pals, my job and I. “In time of weariness and care P ! Here was the friend who helped me bear Suspense and disappointment grim And whispered as the light grew dim: ‘Another day of joy you'll see If you will just stay close to me. Beneath a bright or shadowy sky ‘We've been good pals, my job and L.’ “Perhaps we've quarreled now and then A little—and made up again. When we would meet from day to day You made the time with hope seem gay. The thought you'd bring was one of cheer, Though oft - your severe. To stick together let us try; We've been good pals—my job and 1.” teaching seemed Free Genius. “You frequently quote from Declaration of Independence.” “Frequently,” answered Senator Sorghum. “It was written for the benefit of mankind without any thought of its value as a work of genius. One of the things I especially like about the Declaration is that you can repeat it whenever you like with- out having to say “by permission of the copyright owners. Jud Tunkins says mebbe the man who never had an enemy simply wasn't worth notiein’. the Big Mathematics Needed. In much bewilderment I find Arithmetic all solemn. Yet humbly I apply my mind To add another column. Friend Einstein's mathematic skill Affairs might now be guiding, But when we need it most it will Somehow remain in hiding. Improvements. “Crimson Guich begins to look like a metropolis,” said the traveling man. “Some,” assented Cactus Joe. “The old desperadoes have disap- peared.” “Mostly.” “The streets look brighter at night." “Modern improvement. When them old-timers wanted to play rough, they was satisfled to shoot once in a while and wasn't so very disappointed if they missed. When a touring carload of Jmngsters comes along now, they like plenty of light to see where the crowd and ain’t satisfied unless they hit lenty." “It is impossible to win by cheating, said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown. “No dishonorable gain can be measured to a value that offsets the loss of self- respect. As History Repeats. Our faith and courage are not slight, ‘Though trouble seems to brew. We know that things will come out right— Because they always do. “De weather is one thing plitical folks ought to be thankful foh,” sald Uncle Eben. “No matter how much it goes wrong, dey can't be held 'sponsible for it.” 1 HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, i e e ———————————— ANSWERS TO QUESTION! D. C, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1931. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. It s not generally recognized that the idea of right and wrong, or what old-fashioned le used to call morals, has quietly ‘&,u out of the picture as a conversa al tople. Under the widespread demand for tolerance and fair play the right or wrong of any matter, especially as em- hasized in the conduct of human be- u) A p. Tacitly few people refer to the wrong- doings of those acquaintances whom they resard as friends, and actually fail to hold against them the traits they do_not like. Some have even gone to the extent of failing to discriminate at all between right and wrong, or what one believes to be right and wrong, as based upon one's training, position, environment and capacities. ‘The American doctrine of “getting ahead” no doubt is partly responsible for this attitude. One should not look too closely at others or butt into their business with too much vim, lest they should turn around some time and rend you. The spirit of the frontier has some- thing to do with it. James Truslow this out to considerable extent. men who had the physical vigor and courage to go West were to be accepted, not_criticized. There was a somewhat eruel saying, prevalent in the pioneer days, “The cow- ards never started, and the weak never arrived.” So the land was to the brave and the strong, which was just an- other way of saying the free and the brave. * %X For several score years, however, the {much in_evidence in this country, fol- lowing the Puritan influence and the came to America for-freedom of con- science. Dui the past decade it has become fashionable to sneer, in a dainty intel- lectual manner, at the Puritans, as if they were certain strange animals that had no counterpart nowadays. ‘The Puritans were just ordinary folk, however, and not one-tenth as queer as a great many persons today would like to make them out. They simply believed in the right and wrong of things. Those beliefs, of course, were based on their own convictions, not on the convictions or lack of convictions of their neighbors. If many of their ten- ets happened to hinge on forbidden fruit, it was because the people them- selves had soured on that fruit. If they forbade themselves to do cer- {tain things which many today find in- | nocent, or at least harmless, it was be- cause they did not believe them either innocent or harmless. * k% w ‘They, at least, had beliefs. and those are things many otherwise good human beings of this age seem to lack largely. Today the American people. as a | group, ‘have removed their beliefs to more lightly held matters, such as base ball, the stage, personal transportation |and’ the outdoor life. These, too, are interesting matters, but there yet re- main many persons. perhaps many more than are commonly believed, since they | have few spokesmen, who fee] that the | right and wrong of a matter makes an interesting question, too. No doubt morals, as such, enter into the average discussion less frequently because so mlnwple——cnd 80 much must be admitted—do not find such questions at all interesting. ‘When every one in a community went to church and imbibed the same ideas E MATIN, Paris—Is it not possi- ble to interdict rigorously the use of the cutout on the motors of machines traversing country roads at night, and especially when cars are passing through towns | and villages? This disturbance is in- ;wkrlbl! or sick people, and decidedly | objectionable, too, even to persons in the best of health, & . Hope Transatlantic Yacht ‘Wil Represent France. Le Matin, Paris—The Dolphin has |{taken 17 days to cross the Atlantic from |New York to Southampton. “Fish are swift!” say you? Yes, but this Dolphin is a boat, an American sailing yacht, the first of a fleet of wind-propelled craft which have contested a fantastic course over thousands of miles of salt water. Usually, today, people cross the ocean in all comfort and luxury in vast floating palaces which carry them, to the music of orchestras and the tin- kling of glasses, from the shores of Europe to the Palisades of Manhattan in five days and five nights. Such voy- ers, however, know nothing of the difficulties and charms of tr: sing the same route in a* sailing vessel. ey never experience the delights and vi- cissitudes which molded the heroic race of mariners and explorers setting out on unknown seas, consigning them- selves trustingly to the mercies of Aeolus, the god of the winds! Nevertheless, it seems that these wonderful adventures are to be re- vived, and yachting has provided the op] rtumt{, Fortunately, it is a sport quite “a la mode” and so will have many people of fashion among its dev. otees; their passage on a steamer it affords a particularly eeable method of transatlantic iravel. There aiready ex- ist some associations of pilots destined to make the new generations love again the water and the sea. We ought not to forget, either, that France is a maritime nation, bathed on nearly every side by the ocean and the Mediterranean, and that we are a race of colonists. ‘We hope that next year the yacht winning the transatlantie sailing race will carry the name of a French. dauphin! * ok ok % Schools Prepare Belgian Women for Jobs. Le Soir, Brussels—In 1918, at the end of the war, a number of women and young girls were obliged to find some new resources, either to meet their own needs or to provide support for the dependents among their rela- tives. For most of these, lack of previ- ous training for any specialized work ?revznud the engaging in any occupa ions except those of manual labor. This has led to still more unsatisfac- tory conditions, for there soon was ob- served a surplus of candidates for all unskilled pursuits, while there was a dearth in the feminine ranks of those who could keep books, write stenog- raphy or who were acquainted with any of the other mysteries of commercial science. Fortunately, since the date we speak of, many schools offering business courses for women have been organized in Belgium, and young women now have the opportunity to become quali- fled for many other vocations besides 'thon of farm or domestic servants or factory operatives. Belgian girls now have the opportunity everywhere to prepare for temunerative activities amid interesting and improving sur- roundings—a domain ing simul- taneously financial ine erendenu, ma- terial comfort and moral security. * ok ok % Boats Filled With Water To Bathe Taborers. The Japan Advertiser, Tokio.—A novel mode of bathing was introduced at Fukagawa when several small boats were filled with hot water to s as bath tubs for more than 600 laborers who had severely suffered the effects of the continuous rain. The relief work was financed by the Empress donation and the help offered by Tsurukichi Maruyama, former chief of the metro Adams, in his “Epic of America,” brings A right and wrong of all matters was very | ideas of other God-fearing peoples who | it for young men unable to pay | from the same fount all persons later found food for talk in the same ideas, which included a large proportion of the right and wrong of people and their actions. ok ok Perhaps it was only inevitable that what people did nof talk about they would finally come to omit, at least to some extens, from their very thoughts. And with the moral question thus soft-pedaled, as it were, it was only human that men and women should come to lack discrimination, in the | moral sense. g . | _That is, many find one man is | as another, no matter what his private life may be. Any defalcation he may | make snd rucus which he may imeur is merely a matter for an amused rais- ing of eyebrows. | _One goes to his home just the same as ever, and probably with' more gusto than to the home of some severely moral but dull person who lacks the | power to so m?rt‘nln. * f:lt;rfillnmeél,&! at not the keynote to the modern | American temper? i i | _We like to be shocked out of our- | selves. and secretly thank the man or | woman or family which provides us ‘With this new amusement. | We like to peek into windows, while |at the same time we loudly disclaim that we would do anything of the sort. But for the pleasuré of sitting in on | the misdeeds of others, ‘rom which we carefully keep our own feet clean, we are willing to smile as sweetly at, these | people as those more str: ~laced and less entertaining folk. * ok ok % ‘Well, do the straight-laced people feel that they are getting a square deal? They know they are not.. ‘They know, by all the inherited rules of right and wrong, rules which their | own experience and common sense tell | them are still very much operative, that their often painful repressions and pro- | hibitions in the name of {ood. as they are given the light to see the , are | held in no different wise from the plain misdeeds of others. What can such a person do but say that such people lack a sense of dis- crimination? Nor is that all they think. | They say they lack a m ense, 0. Such people are perh unmoral, rather than immoral. welcome anything for the sake of its entertain- ment value. And thus they give plause to misdeeds, and tend to e those who misbehave (as Christian mor- | als see misbehavior) feel that they are very clever folk, after all. One cannot be a mere spectator at the feast of life. Life is earnest, as Longfellow said. | (Even this innocent saying is food for the sneers of the morality baiters.) ‘Thote honest people who somehow believe in the sanctity of life, with all it _implies, in the matter of every day conduct, find themselves lumped off. in certain minds, as not a whit better than certain types of people they openly look | down on. Toleration calls for no sacrifice of opinion on the part of an honest man. Fair play makes no such demand. But it takes courage today to let the lip curl in a decent contempt, and to refuse to overlook what one regards as 3 Surely the most misunderstood peop! in the Bible are the Pharisees. - They were simply couragous men, not: given to putting the drama of right and WTong, as they saw it, on a strictly en- tertainment basis. They thought that somehow in the wings they saw the shadow of the Great Stagesetter. Highlights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of ‘Other Lands |politan police. Food alto was provided for the destitute workers, and two free | meals were v:oe.kmz u‘un..nx the day. Prigce of Wales Orders Stréamline Car. | Sunday Referee, London.—The Prince of Wales has ordered & new car of un- conventional streamline design. It is nearly ready and when decorated with his own colors—red and black—it will be_delivered to York House. Its designer, Sir Dennistoun Burpey, is the builder of the R-100, and he has incorporated in the car ti of an airship. The engine is at the rear, and from a side view the body resembies a seg- ment of a circle. There is no bonnet, but the front of the car rises in a sloping line from above the wheels to an arched roof, and tails away at the back. > . Bishop Defends New Zealand Youths. The Evening Post, Wellington.— “Where the clergy are pulling their | weight and_doing thelr work preperly there is nothing the matter with outh, " | said Bishop . A. Cherrington at 1 | sesston of the Waikato Diocesan Synod. | “The young people of today are just as religious in every sense of the word as they were when I was young.” e Higher Wheat Prices Seen for Next Year From the Des Moines Rggister. Despite damage from rain, this year's wheat crop in Russia is reported to equal that of last year, which broke previous records. Russia has substan- tially succeeded in the effurt to regain her pre-war position as a- leading ex- |porter of wheat. Operating larger farms with improved machinery, she | produce even more wheat next ‘yenr. but probably her wheat exports | will not be larger, since she plans to | use more wheat at home. | Russia’s wheat exports, valuable as they have been for that country, have | been a factor in depressing wheat prices everywhere. But if the amount of wheat exported from Russia becomes more or less stabilized, there may be enough shrinking in the wheat areas cf other countries to help prices somewhat. Department of Agriculture reports esti- mate a 20 per cent reduction of wheat plantings in the Argentine and a 25 per | cent reduction in Australia. | It is too early for dependable esti- mates for Canada and the United | States. But next year's crop is almost | certain to be smailer than this year's, |and this—together with foreign cuts— | means that the price should be higher. | There has been less voluntary reduction | of acreage than thsFarm Board h | for, but some wheat farmers are being | diven to other eccupations, and in many | cases lost farms will be for other | crops or for grazing or will lie fallow for a year. Just now it looks as if those who have been praying for a farm upturn in the | wheat belt before next year's election | will get at least partial satisfaction. -t A Bit Conservative. | From the Cleveland N | Work on the $165,000,000 Hoover Dam | project is five or six months ahead of schedule at the end of its first year. ‘ n:lnybe the schedule was & bit conserva- tive, R Merely Robot Morons. From the Columbus Ohio State Journal. d I-HJPI.V: W"n‘;fl whist] !l’:u.l: an anal 3 would be interesting to know what he thinks of loud radios. e G 4 As Was Intended. From the Eoringtield, Muss. Republican. A proposal that presidential electors comnitted 10 .00 candidate shall chosen comes hot weather is the West. And the over. | to regurn principles | be- or they were THE LIBRARY TABLE L § By the Booklover Willa Cather’s new- novel, “Shadows on the Rock,” should be read as a sequel to Agnes Repplier'sw delightful blographical study, “'Mere Marie of the Ursulines.”. Both tell of ploneer life in French Canada, centering in Que- bec, and’ the first follows the seccnd in period. Prefatory to Book ‘I .of “Shadows on the Rock” Willa Cather quotes from a letter of Marie de I'In- carnation, the Mere Marie of Repplier, in which she says: “Every- thing here is wild, the flowers as well as the men” The little town of Quebec, perched on fts rock above the St. Lawrence, represented a scrap of French civilization in the New World, and the people enduring the hard life there ‘were but Shadows on the Rock. The Rock, as Willa Cather describes it, was “cunningly built over with churches, convents,” fortifications, * gar- dens, following the natural irregulari- ties of the headland on which they stood; some high, some low, ‘some thrust up on & spur, some nestling in a hollow, some sprawling ' unevenly along & declivity. The Chateau Saint- Louis, gray stone, with steep dormer roofs, on the very' edge of the cliff overlooking the river, st level; but just beside it the convent and church of the Recollet friars ran downhiil, as if it were sliding backward. To land- ward, in a low, well sheltered spot, I the Convent of the Ursulines lower still stood the massive founda- tion of the Jetuits, facing the cathe- ! dral. Immediately behind the cathedral the cliff ran up sheer again, shot out into a jutting spur, and there, “high in the blue air, between heaven and eatth, rose ‘old Bishop Laval's Sem- inary. Beneath it the rock fell away in a succession of terraces like a cir- cular staircase; on one of these was the new bishop's new rqlnce, its gar- dens on the terrace below.” * k% w The most important every-day char- acters in “Shadows on the Rock” are the apothecary, Euclide Auclair, who has come over to Quebec with Count Prontenac, Governor General of Can- ada, and his little daughter Cecile. Auchair's destiny had been determined the fact that his father's apothecary |° shop on the Quai des Celestine, in Paris, was next to the town house of the Prontenacs. In Quebec Auclair visited the chateau almost daily and was sided in many ways by his patron. Ce:ile, after the death of her mother, made it almost a religion to keep up the niceties of life. the traditions Mme. Auclair had brought.from France. So, in the small salon behind the shop, where Auclair dispensed barks. pow- ders, elixirs and conserves, Cecile kept the windows shining, the draperies fresh, a fire burning in the fireplace and at night the dining table set with her mother's white linen and the silver candlesticks. The dinner was the, im- portant event of the day for both Auclair and Cecile and they delighted to ask a friend to share their savory soup, roast chicken, ith & glass of red or white: wine and a dessert of cream cheese and. gooe verry, plum or wild strawberry conserve. Alm as real as the characters of Auclair and Cecile are the others who come and g0 in their daily life on the rock There are Nicholas Pigeon, the baker, was the consumption during the last Output of and his gloomy, deformed assistant, Blinker; timid little Jacques Gaux, son of the irreclaimable ‘Toinette Gaux, who keeps a saflors’ lodging house in the Lower Town; Giorgio, the drummer boy at the chateau; Noel Pommier, the cobbler, and his crippled mother; the old chirurgien. Gervais Beaudoin, and Plerre Charron, “hero of the fur trade, and the coureurs de bois.” o ox % The official. and for the most part historical, characters form the back- ground of “Shadows on the Rock. Count Prontenac lives at the Chateau. not always in favor with the King in Prance, and growing old in what has become an exile, since he is not allowed France. Tre old bishop Mgr. ¥e Laval, lives in his seminary. “in naked poverty,” because he has given all his revenues to the church and the poor. mnflingp::d o'clock in the Cathedral, and “many good people who did not want to go to mass at all, when they heard that hoarse, frosty bell clanging out under the black sky where there was not yet even a hint of daybreak, groaned and went to the church. Be- cause they thought of the old bishop at the end of the bell rope, and because his will was stronger than theirs.” The new bishop, Mgr. de Saint-Vallier, lives in luxury -ndtpnde in the palace which he has built for himself, and does not work harmoniously with the old bishop or sympathise with his ascetic ideas Mother Juschereau de Saint-Ignace is superior of the Hotel Dieu of the Hos- italieres and Father Hector Saint-Cyr under a vow of perpetual service in the New World and lives at the Sault Mission, in the wilderness. * % oAk Long after the facts, another book on the love affair of Parnell and Kath- arine O'Shea has been published, by | Henry Harrison, who was in his youth an enthusiastic follower of Parnell. In 1914 was published a book by Katharine O'Shea herself, then Mrs. Parnell. The facts stated in that book regarding the connection of Parnell and Mrs. O'Shea and Capt. O'Shea’s divorce suit do not altogether accord with those given in Capt. Harrison's book. The difference seems to lie in the question whether or not Parnell was a sneak in his relations with Mrs. O'Shea. Capt. Harrison holds that he was at all times anxious to do away with concealments and to rmit a divorce, so that he could marry firs, O'Shea, but that she insisted on the attempt to keep up appearances and that Capt. O'Shea was not deceived, had long severed connection with his wife and delayed divorce probably be- cause he was politically associated with Parnell. e Whenever & new book of travel in Ireland appears, or whenever one has oneself visited that unspoiled countiv, one wonders why Ireland is not oftener included in the itineraries-of American tourists. ~H. V. Morton's book, “In Search of Ireland,” conveys the charm of all any one r'sses who does not see Ireland. Al wses of Irish life in- terest Mr. Mortc., as well as the natural beauty of the country. He monasteries, 'investigated the electrifi- cation project in connection with the Shannon River, made friends with the imon fishermen in . Galway, spent hours in the museum of Dublin, where is thbe famous Book of Kells; sampled “poteen” and found it rather throat- burning, haunted country -markets, listened to Irish folk-tales, talked with peasants in their thatched cottages. * ok ox % “The story of Princess Elizabeth: Told With the Sanction of Her Parents,” by Anne Ring, formerly attached to the household of the Duke and Duchess of York, will interest many simply be- cause the little prmcru!a: ullh‘e’ dn\ézm:r of a possible King of England and may possibly herself K Queen of England some day. Miss Ring's account shows a model little girl, a trifle over 4 years of age, who apparently has no fauits. Numerous photographs, the first taken when the princess was & scrap of in- fancy, illustrate the book. * x ok x In “The Colopel's Daughter,” Rich- ard Aldington, young English nuvel&. satirizes post-war English life. He pre- sents an g’xteruung collection of figures playing their parts in one county m‘fl" Porhood—Col. Smithers, retired: his daughter Georgle, not very attractive hing that she were; timms, ‘not one of the old county lriawe;e'z. z:"lh: eod\:",;r ';n greases; ;Mrs. ou - Sip; Lizzle Judd, the kitchen maid; Purfleet, traged je's- life 18 that she’ ’w“n married and “where were &‘fim;mlnl'man who should have come awooing the colonel's lovely daughter, for she is grown so fair, s0 h'l.r? Georgle wasn't pretty, Georgie wasn't rich, and thousands and t.housln;ig:y( lvfi'o’:e: %s Handved & ear, with o pros-' rich -and she never He celebrates mass every | | _Statements from former President | | Falls "Argus-Leader, the wordy intellectual. The is | Expert researchers, who can fact you may make. newspaper readers use this great serv- ice. 'Try it today. Make your inquiry easily read and easily understood, and address The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, ‘Washington, D. C. Q. Are there more 18-hole golf courses or nine-hole courses in the United States?—E. H. B. A About 60 per cent of the courses have nine holes. Q. What percentage of the accidents in 'hé' _rcountry could be prevented? A BExperts say that about 60 per cent of the accidents per year could be prevented. Q. Do trees grow in the Winter time?—W. C. D. A. The Bureau of Plant Industry says that growth in trees depends on assimilation of elaborated plant food which in turn depends on the action of the foliage. There can therefore be no growth during the dormant season, when the foliage is absent. Q. Did George Washington ' wear spectacles?—M. C. W. A. Paul Ford, writing on this subject, says that in 1778 Washington's sight become’ poor and he in that year first put on glasses for reading. Owen ‘Wister gives the following information concerning the time Washington ap- peared before the mutinous soldiers whose wrongs had driven them to des- peratio “He had a written address prepared, but upon rising to begin it, the text was dim to his eyes and as he ‘felt for his glasses, that moment during which his own influence and perhaps the country's fate trembled, he spoke simply to the gathering: * ¢+ T have not only grown gray but blind in your service.'” Q Who are some famous musical prodigies?—N. T. A. Wolfga: g Mozart at the age of 5 vears was the first of a long line of precocious geniuses. In recent times the following demonstrated startling musical ability at very early ages: Josef Hofmann, Jascha Heifetz, Mischa Elman, Hubermann, Von Vecsey, Yehudi Menuhin, Gottfried Wieland Wagner |Tgrandson of Richard Wagner and inflal-zrandmn of Franz Liszt) and Oskar Shumsky. Q. Are the whiskers or the smooth faces in & majority Court of the United States>—B. T. G. A. Chief Justice Hughes and Justice Sutherland wear beards and Justice | Holmes wears a moustache; the oth | Justices—McReynolds, Butler, R | Van Devanter, Brandeis, and Roberts— are all smooth-faced | @ How muth beer @ year was sold in l.ls'lh country before prohibition? | A, Approximately two billion gallons year of legal beer. | . Q. Why does oil or fat foam when | doughnuts are fried in it?—A. D. F. A. When doughnuts sre fried in oil | or melted fat of any kind considerable | moisture vapor—that is, water in vapor | form—is given off. With this ter | certain water soluble substances are carried into the fat, which makes the ‘mr!le! of the fat sufficiently viscous to form a foam with the water which has been given off during the cooking of the doughnuts. The substance in one in the Supreme | BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. get you, case may be water soluble any informstion on any subject, are|such as aJbumen, at your command, without charge to| as a result of the use of eggs or from you. A two-cent stamp will bring you| the flour iteelf” AnvtHing which affects & personal answer to any inquiry of the surface tension of the fa ‘which may mlfi to a Thousands of | point where it can be blown into bubbles will cause fat to foam whe | the water vapor comes off during fry- | ing or cooking. !, Q Please name the six citles with the h’;;‘ut Negro population—E. G. | A They are: New York, 327,70 Chicago, 233,903; Philadelphia, 219,59 Baltimore, 142,106; Washingtor, D. C 132,068; New Orleans, 129,832. _® What s the October birthstone? A. The opal. Q. Hasn't England been off the gol smAndxa)rdlfiz other times?>—R. A, i . During two periods—from 1799 to 1821 and from 1914 to IQZSAm | Q. Who is in charge of the buflding Program in Washington, D, C.2—H. D | A It is going on under three sepa- rate derartments. David Lynn, archi fect of the Capitol, has charge of the building of the House Office Building and addition to the Senate Office Build- ing. Albert Harris, municipal architect is in charge of the construction work cf | the: District of Columbia. The archi- tect’s office in the United States Treas- ury, has, charge of the erection of the | varfous ‘buildings to house Gov bieed o Government mQé:lum:ur Government made loans y ropean countries si World War?—W. G. C. it A Tt has not. Loans have been made by American citizens. Some of these are by bankers, but most sre in- dividuals, widows, orphans, business | men, grocerv clerks, lawyers—ordinary American cftizens. Anybody who buvs 2 bond of a European country or Euro- pean factory or business of anv kind is lending to Furope. His Ioan may amount to bolrl\l'; $50, but a great many cans buying such bonds a total of millions. S | | Q. Where is the Navy and ne Memorial to be Placed ., 1o o 1 be placed on bi: Island, West Potomac Park, &:‘a“l‘z’l‘ng? |ton, D. cC. | Q. Is Kaiser Wilhelm restricted from “"5‘"1 his present abode in Holland? : A The former German Emperor, William II, is restrained by law Dfrcm re-entering the German Republie, but there are no legal restrictions against | his leaving the Netherlands. | Q. What country has the largest searchlight?—J. 8. A. The United States. It is the Lindbergh ' Beacon, which rises 65 feet above the penthouse of the Palmolive Building in Chicago, Il. The beacon consists of two lights, one mounted | above the other. The upper one is the | beacon proper and has an outp |2,000,000.000 candlepower brought into |® beam five feet in diameter and re- | volving at the rate of two revolutions rer minute. The lower light has an 1,100.000.000 candiepower | brought by a’ parabolic reflection ints & beam 36 inches in diameter fixed to | direct visiting airmen to the Musfcipa] | Alrport. It 15 computed that at a dis- ce of 55!; miles the Lindbergh on becomes equivalent in bright- to the full moon. | @ In “Gulliver's Travels” was Gulliver's first name?>—G. S A Lemuel. The book was published in 1726 and has been known as a popu- | lar child's book and as one of the best | known satires in the English language ness what | Coolidge indicating that he repudiates | all efforts to make him a candidate for | the Republican nominatfon for the presidency next vear are widely accepted as evidence that, the party will be free | from factions in the campaign year. | The Coolidge utterance also is inter- | House in a time of national emergency. uncertainty in the minds of those who the possibility of his candidacy for the nomination,” declares the Lexington Leader, while the Hartford Times holds that “his prestige is not diminished by | that course,” but “it very likely would be if he yielded to temptation to try again a luck that has been phenomenal.” | The Fort Wayne News-Sentinel that the statement “should go far to increase the rigidity of many pessi- | mistic backbones and to rally a cheer- ful attftude of confidence in the Gov- ernment as navigator of the ship of | state in an admittedly annoying squal Its significance “ds scotching thus early the recently apparent.desire of some Republicans to sidetrack President Hoover in the next national convention is empl 2vized by the Fort Worth Star- Telegraia. which, however, calls it “more an adjuration to .economy than it is a direction to politicians of his part; ‘The Cleveland News believes that “the strength of the Coolidge fol- lowing—and it is still great—will large- ly be thrown behind the Hoover mov ment,” and that paper is also con- vinced that this action “closes the door finally on the possibility of the emer- gence of a strong opponent at the close of Mr. Hoover's first term.” Other papers which point to the force of the plea against factional action are the Madison, Wis,, State Journal, the Uniontown Herald and the Providence Bulletin. believes that “one may sympathize wish Mr. Coolidge's sentiments on party loyalty and party discipline without going the whole distance with him in the matter of supporting men in office.” 0 Lol “It is possible that by his pronounce ment he has avetted a schism in the Republican par thinks the Ann Arbor Daily News, while the clearing of the situation is observed by the Chat- tanooga Times and the Houston Chron- icle. The strengthening of President Hoover's position, politically, is attested by the Rock Island Argus, the Sioux the Manchester Union and the Oshkosh Northwestern. The Columbus Ohio State Journal holds that it was written “to exert what influence. is his in tehalf of Mr. H “he indirectly informs. certain members of his party that fajlure to, support & Republican President who is honestly tfying to serve well is treach- ery that debases the practitioners and weakens the party and the Nation.” “If Coolidge at any time felt tempted to accede to the urgings of ardent, but ill-advised friends to seek the nomina- tion for himself,” rémarks the Savannah Morning News, “the thought has now been completely abandoned. Judging | from his declaration, he has been moved to this decision by recognition that such an effort on his part would not only be a rebuking reflection on the present administration and disastrous to the party, but would be an additional factor disturbing the present efforts toward co-operation and confidence as essen~. tials in removing business depression. Mr Cooldige's announcement is marked by ruuul sagacity and a keen ap~ preciation of conditions as they are.” An uppel;; Nation as saw them, or they were flabby' and wanted to be kept, or they were scat- tered from Honduras to Hongkong, from Labrador to the Straits, adminis tering \hn World * * T, Georgie there came no young Lochinvar.” f . Coolidge Statement Turns preted as a call for loyalty to the White | “There never has been the slightest | knew Mr. Coolidge as to his reaction | to rumors and suggestions concerning | feels The Wheeling Intelligencer | Greatest-Empire-in-the- | it does Eyes to Hoover Prospec: the Philadeiphia Evening Bulletin, th Buffalo Evening News and the Con- nelisville Daily Courier. The Chicago Daily News say “Political racketeers who have eounted on commercializin the honorable reputation of Cal Coolidge for their own substantial profit in the coming presidential year ought to have known that the former Presi- dent never was in the habit of lending hmself to the promotion of dublous ad- ventures. Many of Mr. Coolidge's loyal friends and admirers regret his volun- tary retirement from public life, but the ‘draft Coolidge’ movement, which of late | has been gaining headway in varlous States, including Illineis, has been pro- | moted mainly by discredited elements in the Republican party or on the be- draggled fringes of that party, The experienced leader whose name thev have used so fresly has chosen to ad- minister to them a remarkable rebuke while calling upon the public for united loyal service.” The incident is viewed with a back- ground of doubt as to Republican pros- pects hy the Oklahama City Times, the Scranton Times, the Akron Beacon Journal and the Omaha World-Herald | Denial of the possible prospects of Mr | Coolidge as a candidate is made by th | Lynchburg News, the Louisville Courier- Journal, the Baltimore Evening Sun and | the Dayton Daily News. Th~ Portland | Jregon Journal concludes: “Mr. Coolidg- | was always credited with being a canny | politician, pro-f of which was given in | his string_of elections to prominent offices both in his own State and in the Nation. and in the great plurality he received in 1924. His reputation in that regard will not be dimmed by hic | refusal to become a candidate for the presidency in 1932, Were Mr. Coolidge a candidate he would have a good man: | things to answer for. While thore wa= great prosperity during his terms in the White House, it was during that time that the seeds of the present de- pression were in great part sown.” e Disclosures Show Need | For Judicial Reforms | From the Chicago Daily News. | _ Under the auspices of the American | Judicature Society and other organiza- tions a strong committee of judges and | lawyers has been appointed to stud: |means of improving the American | bench, especially in_metropolitan com- | munities like New York and Chicago. Recent disclosures in the former city | tend to prove that a serious situation | has become chronic. There is corrup- tion on the bench in New York, if not elsewhere as well, especially on the mu- | nicipal bench, and there s in conse- {quence maladministration of justice | Machine politicians control judical ap- | pointments or nominations, sell judge- | ships and even dictate court decisions | Moreover, even honest and faithiul judges do not always give satisfactor: service. They may be selected on | grounds totally unconnected with fit- ness for judicial duty. Too many of the judges in the inferior courts lack | knowledge, experience and intellectual power, The commitiee will make its investi- gation_without preconceived ideas. It may recommend changes in constitu- tional and statutory provisions covering the methods of selecting iudges. Three distinct questions are involved—train- ing, selection and tenure, Partisan and factional politics must be eliminated from the elevation of men to judicial office. That is an essential condition of any improvement wortay of the name. The committee should go courageously to the root of the trouble and should pro the remedies, no matter how radical, that are best suited to correct a grave evil, Ot e Now:for Auto Foot Ball. Prom the Roanoke Times. A car that mg:n lidfl':e as eu%}"ml; 2 car ought to set nbe‘:"wmoml when 1t |15 turned loose among the pedestrians,