Evening Star Newspaper, October 13, 1931, Page 8

gAg’ THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY......October 13, 1931 THEODORE W. NOYES. Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company 1em s A FobTivants Ave 1tn, st.'and pennsyivania Ave, New York Office: 110 East 42nd St. giicano Bce” ke Michitan Bunaios uropean Office: 14 Rrxtnl .. London., England. Rate by Carrier Within the City. 43¢ per month T “60c per month W The Sunday Star A Collection made at the end Orders may be sent in by mail Natiopal Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Dally and Sunday.....1yr. $10.00: 1 mo. 85¢ iy onls - 1yr. $6.00: 1 mo.. 50¢ unday only E 1¥ri $4.00: 1 mo, 40¢ All Other States and Canada. fly and Sunday...l yr.$12.00: 1 mo.. $1.00 aily only ... 1yr, $8 inday only 171 ;1 mo.. 15¢ $5.00: 1mo. 50¢ Member of the Associated Press. The Assoclated Press is exclusively entitled o the use for republication of all Lews iz~ atches credited fo it or not otherwise cred- ted in this paper znd also the iocal news published herein. Al rignts of publica cial 150, ‘each mon! i or telephone Glorifying the Police. Glorification of the cheap and gaudy gangster, too often at the expense of the average police department, which in turn becomes the butt of public ridicule and censure, is a condition and not a theory that the President right- eously deplores. The couniry needs, as the President points out, the glorifi- cation of the policemen who do their duty “and give their lives in public protection.” But if one must look far down into the structure of human nature to find #n explanaiion of that phenomenon of behavior which is expressed in sym: pathy for and glorification of the crim. inal and ouilaw, it unfortunately re- quires only a superficial examination of present conditions to account for some of the periodic upheavals in pub- lic opinion that loosen floods of abuse, mayhap blind at times, upon the public officers who serve the community in suppressing lawbreakers end punish- ing the criminals. There is a curious and paradoxical element in human nature that tends to make a hero of a public enemy. The James boys, Billy the Kid, Robin Hood and Al Capone have enjoyed the role of heroes, with time and myth tending to soften the ugly facts that otherwise would spoil the part. And a latter-day type of scnsational exploitation of crim- inals hes catered to the sentiment that sympathizes with the underdog and seeks to ennoble him, carrying the busi- ness to disgusting and vulger extreme. But public disillusionment probably accounts, as much as anything else, for Jack of the confidence and trust in the police that is necessary and, therefore, desirable. The police cannot function efficiently without possessing the confi- dence and respcct of the community. But when the community is disil- lusioned, and its mental picture of what a policeman ought to be is destroyed by sordid and revolting revelations, such as those that have been made from time to time in nearly every large city of | overthrow. Herr Hitler promises his the United States, pointment and shock cause bitter suspicion and disgust. It is true, as President Hoover said in his address to the police chiefs gathered at St. Peters- burg, that “criticism arises from the exception and not the rule in police conduct.” A few members of a large police force may by their acts under- mine public confidence in their blame- less fellows. But this is because the public demands perfection in the police and the discovery that such perfection does not exist is followed by extraordi- marily bitter disappointment. The policeman is the small boy's hero, and he continues to be until the small boy grows up and finds that he bas been worshiping an illusion. It is the task of the police chiefs to pre- vent such disillusionment by a con- tinual proeess of housecleaning that requires no interference from the out- side; that weeds out the unfit before their accidental discovery becomes' a scandal discrediting the force. That is one thing and the President enumer- ates the others as “the vigilant, uni- versal backing of public opinion”; the “implacable support of the prosecuting authorities and the courts,” and clos- ing up of the loopholes in our crimi- nal laws “through which irresponsible, yet clever, crimigal lawyers daily find devices of escape for the guilty,” which are necessary if the police are to en- joy full confidence and respect and are to be successful in stamping out “the excessive crime and remove the world-wide disrepute which has dis- graced some of our great cities.” The public should, as the President urges, glorify the policeman and make of him a popular hero “for the courage and devotion he shows in protecting our citizens.” And this, when deserved, will follow. The public loves a hero. i Serving a gang baron is no easy life. A lieutenant is likely to feel like “Sweet Alice” in the song, who wept with de- light if you gave her a smile and trembled with fear at your frown. the public disap- More Chairman John J. Raskob of the Democratic National Committee 1is planning to relieve some of the banks of several “frozen” Democratic assets. At the close of the last national cam- paign the Democratic National Com- mittee was more than a million dollar in debt—indeed, about a million and a half. This has been gradually reduced until it is estimated that the deficit approximates $750,000. Mr. Raskob and one or more banks have been holding the bag. ‘Tonight, it is reported from New York, Mr. Raskcb and half a hundred of lhc( foremost Dcmocrats in the country are to dine and discuss the plans which have been worked out for raising not only the money neceded to extinguish the Democratic deficit, but also to provide $750,000 to carry on the work of Demo- cratic publicity and organization up to the time of the national convention next year. Agents of the committee are said to have reported that a total of $6,000,000 would be needed for the ac- tivities of the national organization through the coming national campaign. Democrats here and there have been bearing down recently on the Repub- l'can administration because the Treas- ury now faces a deficit. 5c_per copy | 1 | crats do not intend to stint themselves ! THE EVENING S'TAR. WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1931 meet the approval of the country next!mll'fi an hour and a cruising speed ol' year, must turn over a new leaf them-| selves, A party that invariably is in debt at the end of a national cam- paign and throughout the intervening period until the next campaign begins is not a shining example of thrift or effictency in money matters. Appar- ently Chairmen Raskob is planning to do his best to erase the picture which the country has had for many years of Democratic incfliciency when it comes to financing the party’s national cam- paigns. Six millions of dollars, even when $750,000 of it moy be needed merely | to pay off a deficit, is a large sum of money to raise and expend in these times, It is true that the Democrats are convinced they have a betier chance of taking over the control of the Fed- !eral Government at next year's elections | (than they have had for a score of! {vears. Because of this belief, which appears to be widespread among the i Democrats, raising mcney for their | camprign may be an easier proposi- tion than it has been in the past. At least, if the plans of the National Com- mittee for a $6,000,000 fund are car- ried cut, it is clear that the Demo- i in the matter of spending money next year for campaign purposes. If Chair- | man Raskob succeeds in ralsing the money to pay off the deficit and sends the party to the next convention city without owing & cent, he will have es- | tablished a precedent. - ——o—s The German Crisis. The stage is set for another of those critical tosts of strength in Germany between the government and the forces | of reaction. It is due before many, hours in the Reichstag, assembling to- | | day for the first time since last March. | | President von Hindenburg and Chan- | cellor Bruening indulged the hope that in the intervening eight months condi- | tions would undergo such a normalizing | process that the Reich might reason- | ably look forward to a perfod of un- | molested progress toward eventual, if not speedy, economic salvation. Such | & prospect, thanks to the Hitler-Hugen- | berg-Steel Helmet alliance, is no longer | In sight. Germany's via dolorosa seems | today as endless as ever. | Certainty of stormy days was assured | |at Bad Harzburg last Sunday when | | Hitler's Fascists and Hugenberg's NB-! | tionalists formally made common cause | !against the Bruening government. i Joined by the Peasants’ League, the ]aml-xuvernmem combination now ac-| | counts for 167 Reichstag votes, by far | the largest bloc in the chamber. | At Bad Harzburg the Hitlerites and Hugenbergers acquired a powerful ad- {herent in the person of Dr. Hjalnar Schacht, former president of the Reichs- bank. In a flery address Dr. Schacht | categorically accused the government of onspiring to deiude the German people |as to the true extent of the nation's | financial “catastrophe.” An avowed as- | {pirant for the German presidency in, 11932, Schacht's outburst savored of one of those exploits known in the United States as throwing your hat into the | ring. \ The government is ready for a fight to the finish with the elements of sub- versiveness now brazenly leagued for its brown-shirted cohorts that they will ! soon be in control at Berlin. When he | conferred with President von Hinden- | burg last week the warrior-statesman | left Hitler in no doubt tbat steel will | be met with steel if the “Nazis” choose | to go to extremes. The same grim de- | termination marks the manifesto issued | yesterday by Gen. von Groener, jgvho combines the portfolios of war and in- terior in the revamped Bruening cab- inet, thus clothing him not only with military but also with police power throughout the country. The Social Democrats, the strongest single party in the Reichstag and par-| ents in chief of the republic, have just pledged Chancellor Bruening their full support in his grave task of preserving it. ‘Together with the Socialists, the Roman Catholic Center, the People's party and the National Liberals, the government marshals a substantial Reichstag majority for its program of law, order and rigid economy at home and fulfiilment of German obligations abroad. Germany, because she is very largely the bedrock of the European economic structure at the moment, needs pro- tracted tranquillity if she is to remain even semi-solvent. It is to the whole world's interest that she be kept off the shoals. That being so, international prayers will be sent up for the govern- ment's safety at this crucial juncture, | when all mankind is groping for “the | way out.” P S — Pennsylvania miners who returned to work after a brief strike no doubt de- cided thet the ranks of the unem- ployed are already too numerous to |make a call for volunteers look rea- | sonable. R The American Clipper. ©Of partigglar interest to the world of aviation was the christening yesterday by Mrs. Herbert Hoover of the new giant forty-five-passenger amphibian plane which is soon to take its place on a passenger run of seven hundred miles over the Caribbean Sea. the long- est regularly scheduled water trip in | the history of commercial flying. Pow- \ered by four five-hundred-and-seventy- | five-horsepower engines and equipped to illnd on either water or earth, this new | monster of the skies is second in size jonly to the famous DO-X, which re- cently reached the United States after a crossing from Europe which was dotted about one hundred and fifteen, ample for a ship of its size, especially on the route over which it will operate, where days are reduced to hours by airplane, and it may be that it is the fore- runner of other planes of its size for this type of service. Speed Is, of course, an essential in the eoir, but the number of motors required to pull a thirty-four- thousand-pound planc through the sky at high speed would make the cost of operation prohibitive. The large plane, typified by the Amer- ican Clipper, undoubtedly has its uses and it may be that ships of even great- er carrying capacity will soon make their appearance. Speed, however, is the demand of the public today and smaller planes will probably always be kept in operation for short, fast jumps between important cities. o His cool shrewdness under all eir- cumstances will make it useless for Capone to send for the psychoanalysts in case he gets into trouble that is more serious than those of mere money matters. —oee ‘The success with which the former relates after all to private economies and gives him apparently no value in an advisory capacity in regulating in- ternational money relationships. s Sovietists are accused of trying to destroy this country, thereby disor- ganizing the best market for products for which Russia is sending along her most accomplished high-power selés- men. o China is not altogether lacking in commercial astuteness. This Is shown by the number of highly expensiv now valueless, mah jong sts she un- loaded on the public a few years 3go. - “Socialism” is a word of many sig- nificances. In general it stands for a new deal in politics, with the privilege of changing the rules, available to those who are Tunning the game. e Reputations of the two great can cities have not changed much. New York s still considered the world's money center and Washington, D. C., the conversation center. e In recognizing both silver and gold, possibilities have to be considered of efforts to spend the silver and put the gold back in the safe. e Stalin is & shrewd man, but not | shrewd enough to prevent G. Bernard | Shaw from using him in a publicity plan. —— vt SHOOTING STARS. Ameri- BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. History's Guessing Contest. A grim old mummy woke one day i And spoke of times so far away, \When rulers came and rulers went !As fame reared many & monument. Said he, “That story, now so old, |In one brief sentence may be told | In rivairies both fierce and long, | Some men guessed right and some guessed Wrong. }“Wllh eloquence so much admired, With industry that never tired For Power and for Glory great And treasure fit for splendid state, The leaders battled for renown As dynasties went up or down. Each following was a hopeful throng And some guessed right and some guessed wrong. “I hope it's different today. And yet I heard a tourist say That contests great must soon decide Which men shall stand in baffled pride. And as the greater tell the less Of leadership to swift success, I know you'll hear that ancient song— guessed wrong.” Strictly Politics. “You don't seem to get very much excited about the trouble in As “Why should I,” rejoined Senator Sorghum. “I see no reason for me to make speeches. Neither the Chinese nor the Japanese have any voting in- fluence worth mention, in my district.” Jud Tunkins says taking & gang man's gun away from him makes him look about as influential as a stingless hornet. Dallying With Temptation. In high finance I took a chance, And all unfriendly was my fate. I'm taking now another glance At figures where they calculate What speculations are correct. I murmur as I look them o'er, “Never agaip!” Yet I suspect That soon I'm going to lose some more. Against Agitation. “I wish they'd stop this agitation about prohibition,” said Uncle Bill Bot- tletop. 5 “You told me you had quit using alcohol in any form.” “I have, But I don't see the good of so much talk that keeps me inter- ested in it.” “The statue of a great man,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “should be like our representations which by de- picting magnificence without personal resemblance, puts an end to all blame; even that of art criticism.” Epitaph. Cornwallis surrendered, if history tells with misfortune. The American Clip- per, as the First Lady of the Land =0 | appropriately christened it, will join the | large fleet of the Pan-American Air- ways, which links North and South America. Increased carrying capacity has marked the constiuction of planes used in the far-flung network of commercial services that have been built up in this country in the past few years, but the American Clipper practically doubles the passenger and freight space for ships hitherto in operaticn. The DO-X, largest plane in the world, was designed to accommodate more than one hundred air travelers, but it cannot be said that its performance has been a conspicu- ous success. Its twelve motors not only gave trouble but were not sufficient in pcwer adequately to propel the big ship at the speed its designers hoped wo\lldl be attained. It looks as The American Clippér has & top gyn vy; though the Democrats, if they are to speed of one: hundred and thirty-five enough? true, And so did what he was expected to do. He was happy In life and is happier yet Beyond all complaining—so why should we fret? “Old Man Worry,” said Uncle Eben, “don’t mean no particular harm and only comes around when he's sent for by somebody dat 'ud rather be scaréd dan lonesome.” . e Can’t Stop Golfers. From the Hamilton, Ontario, Spectator. Snow, rain and thunder are re| to have halted harvesting in Alberta, but we'll venture the prediction that the gnllerl plugged right through to the itter end. Just One More—Now. From the Milwaukee Sentinel. A Columbia University professor finds only four grcat men in the present age —Woodrow Wilson, Gandhi, Lenin and at Sen. “Onlyl” Isn't that 3 . - Kaiser has adjusted his own finances { Some men guessed right and some | THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Human beings do not like frankness and honesty. Make no mistake about that, young men and women going into business. ‘They prefer delusions, and even de- ceptions. A Nor do we refer here to the so-called frankness which is nothing less than un- blushing nastiness. We refer to real frankness, that hon- esty of mind which makes an innocent person belleve that nothing can be un- popular which is true. Never was a greater mistake ever made than that naive idea. ‘Tell your friend the truth about an: | thing—especially in 1egard to his per- {sonal being—and watch resentment sparkle. * % It is a queer quirk in human nature that not one man or woman in ten thousand can stand criticlsm, In a fallible world, why should any one be freed from criticism? Criticism—so long as it be honest— is merely pointing out a flaw, And who is flawless? “Even in the wall of China there are cracks.” runs the old proverb. Some sardonic Chinaman grinned probably thousands of years ago, since everything in China seems to have been invented prior to the wall, LR ‘There is a personal application in that sqying for every human being, China- man or otherwise. No person is perfect. so why should | he hate to know that some one else de- | tects the flaws? “Even your best friends won't tell you,” indeed! ; But they will do a great deal of think- ing. It you yourself can recognize your own errors, upon occasion, is there any use in fondling the idea that others cannot sec them, t00? They surely can, and they surely will and 1f an occasional misguided wight on revealing as much to you t is the point in flaming into anger over the matter? * ook % ng to do is to “write him down an ass’ as Shakespeare put il and then forget about the episode as speed- ily as possible. Call him a fool, not because he has not been honest, and furely not because he is wrong. but solely because he is lay- ing up troubles for himself in a world | where moths do rend and goods decay, | where friendships rust as well as iron The rust of friendship is, let it be said sadly, this selfsame y. this un- thinking frankness, not more than two people in the whole wide world are ever able to use with cach other. “Eow lonely life is, after all” an intelligent woman. “It is almost im- possible to be sure of eny one, now- adavs. All you have to do is to say one wrong word and you have put your foot into it. Make a single mistake, and this person you regarded as your friend is gone.” So one finds life not only real and not only earnest. but sometimes essentially lonely. and & bit sad, when one stops to think of all the perfect harmony which might exist in human relations, but which so seldom materializes. Even families fight! * X X o It is & disheartening spectacle to see ERLINER TAGEBLATT.—There was a terrific combat between a lunatic and some police offi- cers in a dwelling house in the northeastern part of the city. In the cellar of the aforementioned edifice the 27-year-old Baron von Held- reich, a near-imbecile, had ensconced himself and resisted all efforts of the authorities to dislodge or capture him. In the earlier part of the evening the young man had drunk heavily in an establishment in the same street, and then, when it was discovered he had no money to pay for his entertainment, was obliged to leave his coat as pledge for his bill. At this affront Baron von Heldreich worked himself into a tower- ing passion, ran to his nearby res dence and got himself a revolver. Re- turning immediately to the inn with the weapon in his hands. he discharged several shots at the proprietor, but very luckily all raissed. After this the nitwit retired to his home, while the landlord ran for the police. The latter surrounded the shuttered house of the baron and de- manded that he surrender. Instead he stealthily opened a cellar window and shot at the police officers. They re- turned the fire and there was a brisk interchange for a few moments, after which the response of the baron sud- denly ceased. Subsequently the officers entered the dwelling by force and found Von Held- reich lving dead on th: cellar floor with a bullet through his chest. * ok x % Religious House Party Held at Oxford Colleges. Sunday Referee, London.— Recently there has been taking place in three of the colleges of Oxford University a gigantic international house party that may eventuate in a world-startling re- ligious revival. | | litical causes; it is indisputably the that have stirred the five continents. Already the new religious movement centered in this remarkable house party is awakening the most somnolent of all sleepers—the intellectuals. B. A's, M. A’s, LL. B’s, M. Bs honor men and women in great num- ber and many Oxford dons are to be seen at the meeting rooms in the three colleges or strolling together arm-in- arm on the rose-bordered lawns dis- cussing nothing more _intellectual or scientific than “Christ the Wisdom and Power of God” and the need of daily self-surrender to Him as the solution of life's riddle. Vet the house party is not forbidding- 1y highbrow. The midbrow visitor no- tices immediately the absence of every sign of intellectual snobbery; indeed, of every human affectation or ‘mannerism likely to drive the curious and pagan inquirer hurriedly back to his protecting shell. For whatever the first thinks of the teaching he has no alternative but to like the product of the Oxford groups forming the house party. A healthier, livelier, gayer, more courteous and unselfish band of cul- tured men and women does not exist. Here at St. Hugh's, St. Hilda's, Lady Margaret Hall are groups of young and middle-aged men and women who are taking Christianity to its logical limits and practicing the faith, courage and recklessness of the early apostles. These 500 or so, drawn from all churches and no churches, do not stand for a point of view as the price of a safe seat in Paradise, but for a quality of life. To adopt a quotation from one of the finest of them: “They have re- stored commonplace truths to their first uncommon luster by translating them into action.” And all unitedly proclaim that Chris- tianity when put into unrestricted prac- tice becomes not the impossible ideal of pular belief, but the only working g::h for a joyous life. A new automobile may stop, a race horse may die, the wireless may fade out and a watch run down, but the acts of the apostles continue; they ap- pear to continue impressively in many acts of the groups now gathered at Ox- ford University, who find in the New Testament the secret of perpetual mo- tion galvanizing any man, any woman, any typs, any class, in any age, into unexpected vitality and startling power. 1f you ask who is the founder of Ox- ford's new religious movement you from ear to ear when he colned that, | sighed Oxford may be the home of lost po- | home of several religious awakenings | | relationships hinging on so little, crack- ing widely asunder over a littlenes quite as well as if it had been a big- ness. It is pleasant for brothers to live to- gether in amity; why do not more of them do it? People are forever making personal remarks about others, and then won- | dering why they fail to salute them in the future as cordially as before. ‘They forget that a human being is more touchy than a monkey fresh out of a jungle. Not more than one human being out of every million inhabitants of this | globe is £o constituted, mamtally and | spiritually, that he is able to regard | himself ‘except as the center of the | world. H * ok * | ‘Therefore, as befitting a center, |around which all things revolve, a | human being crcates his own concep- | tion of himself. | This mental picture of one's self is a beautiful, lovely thing. It may be beautiful in a harsh way, or it may be beautiful in an exquisite | manner, but in any event it is some- | thing glorious. | 'No man, though he makes his own picture of himself, would recognize the grand creature if he were to meet him in_the street. | “We were talking to one of the most |intelligent men we know, and he said, |“I do not like to get my photograph | taken, because I am always shocked at it. I always picture myself, to myself, as much different.” | * K %k | He was an honest man, | _All people feel more or less like that about themselves, but few have searched their hearts enough to realize it. | Maybe searching of hearts has gone out of fashion. | * ox ko | Consider, now, our perfect human being—this picture of every man which every man carries around with him. The fellow is glorious to a degree. He is the one imaginative creation of the | great common people. yEVery man is & novelist of his own ife. e may never put a word on paper, but he creates a little tin god for him- | self, by himself and of himself, out of nothing much. He decks himself in crimson and gold and sends him ceasclessly into the mighty places of earth. Even a psychologist has yet to hear of a human being who thinks any of- fice in the land too grand for him Truly, many might shrink from filling it. on a show down, but still fecl con- vinced that the people made a mighty good choice. * xxw Speak mnot the truth, then, of thy fellow man if you wish to glide easily through life. Turbulent are the waters for the swimmer who dares to shout, Lefty, your shirt is out!” Lefty, swimming along in his pride of manhood, never once has pictured a Lefty with the tall of his shirt any place but where it should be. When you rudely call his attention to it he is indignant. You may re- store his sartorial perfection, but you have chipped his little tin god. And! because he loves that little tin god he will never forgive you for it. Never! Highlights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands | get & surprising, perhaps embarrassing, |answer. You will be quietly told, “The | Holy spirit.” * x | Character Has Influence on Teeth. Le Matin, Paris—A convention of foreign dentists has arrived at the con- clusion that character as well as health Las a great influence on the teeth, and that their deterioration may equally re- sult from improper conduct as well as from bodily disabilities. More than one coquett>, having heard this solemn pro- nouncement, asks every one she con- siders competent to tll her the best ways of counteracting these evils, and of calming her nerves, for poorly spaced and defective teeth are also said to be a sign of extreme nervousness. By eschewing all infractions of the laws, both ethical and hygienic, she hopes to escape an invidious reputation i reflected in the state of her dental equipment. She studies her moods, ex- ercises on her free control a severe re- straint and no longer permits herself even the luxury of weeping when things do not go to suit her. But even at the cost of such self- discipline do teeth, once impaired, get right again? Certainly not. Neverthe- less it is an excellent idea, this sort of philosophy, and if our coquette does not succeed in restoring her teeth to their pristine regularity and brilliancy, at least she may, in the course of events, gain some other advantage—perhaps the esteem and affection of her whole circle of acquaintance. * ok ok x Tea Held Harmless and Valuable Stimulant. El Universal, Mexico City.—The beverage which we call “te” has long been enjoyed in China, but far more re- cently cultivation of the plant from which it is derived has been introduced into Japan, India, Ceylon and parts of Africa. The flavors of the teas varies, however, and all are very diffcrent from the taste of Chinese teas and the processes of preparation are also very dissimilar. Today India and Ceylon produce most of the tea which is shipped to England and other tea-drinking coun- tries. It is transported usually in bulk packages of one variety, and sold at destination to the highest bidders, who then make their various blends. These blends, varying in taste, strength, price and quality, are thence shipped in tin, paper or foil packages of all sizes to wholesalers all over the world. Tea is a beverage which may be safely drunk at all hours of the day. 1t is refreshing and strengthening when taken upon arising in the morning, and tea has long been the characteristic feature of the British breakfast. Tea at 4 or 5 o'clock in the afternoon has also long been a concomitant of Eng- lish social life. It is served at that hour, even in British offices and work- shops, for work begins rather later in the day in that country than in others. It has been found a valuable and harm- lessstimulant for both business and work- ing men taken at that time. Before re- tiring, a cup of tea, not too strongly brewed, insures a sound repose, and at any other hour, when one feels weak or tired or has migraine, a cup of tea is both restful and soothing. [ Caveat Emptor, From the Detroit News. With the rock gardening fever at its height, common field stones are said to be selling in Iowa for $1 a bushel. Let the buyer beware. Don't pay for a bushel of rocks until you have picked them over. There are unprincipled farmers who wouldn’t be above slipping :.g:ch of wheat into the bottom of the et. e e Shaw !Picks On” U. S, From the Toledo Blade. 5 Bernard Shaw wants England to sell Jamaica to the United States. That man Shaw is forever “picking on” this country. o But Is There? From the Sloux City Journal. The British government is moving to event profiteering in foodstuffs and T m&mh:nt&'w-ufihmim “Hey, | NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM L G. M. | | THE TEMPLE OF THE WARRIORS. By Eerl H. Morris. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. Speaking of hidden treasure, source of & thousand adventures and 10 times ‘that of record and romance—speaking of this, What a treasure-chest, in truth, is the Old Earth itself, all packed and on its whirling way to—I wonder! | However, just now the point is that within it, here and there, under an in- finite cunning of concealment, are gems | made precious by the vanity and cu- pidity of man. Gold and silver, iron, coal, oll and many another priceless hiding, besides, that, as knowledge grows, will issue forth with the rest, cach to take its part in a world service ithat tends, steadily, toward miracles of | material achievement. Knowledge, therefore, is the first im- perative of the present and the future. And knowledge is coming by leaps and bounds. Then, leaders to gather the ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERI This bureau does not give advice, but it gives free information on any sub- ject. Often, to be accurately informed is to be beyond the need of advice, and information is always valuable, where- | as advice may not be. In using this service be sure to write clearly, state your inquiry briefly and inclose 2-cent stamp for reply postage. Address The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederick J. Haskin, Director, Wash- ington, D. C. Q. Does the American Legion make a distinction in its membership be- tween men who served overseas and those who did not?—J. B. A. A. No distinction is made. Q. What are birthmarks?—L. W. A. They are blemishes with which people are born. They are in reality a number of small blood vessels near the | surface of the skin. Q. When were the Sunday school lessons International formulated?— new forces as they appear, to marshal | W. 8. jand regiment and co-ordinate these {with ones already upon active duty. iAnd leaders have come, are coming. {The high test of these is a steadfast | demand for more of knowledge and a | |substantial support of ways and means | {for_securing it. | 'So, the Carnegies and Rockefellers {and Guggenheims and the rest are cre- ating foundations, endowments, insti- tutlons for the promotion of learning |to flluminate and fire the new day, to ! give it direction and objective. These | jare spreading wide benefactions from | the earth-treasure already given into their hands. These are leaders who mark a true progression in the ways of collective human existence. The history of the United States is, in effect, a pretty generally Englished | istory. Outside this British zone of settlement, political growth, intellectual ! dominance and temperamental stamp, | too little is known of other contributory | influences. The strain of French to the inorth is counted negligible. The rubbie of Spanish to the south is little morc | than a picturesque motley of Colum- bian and pre-Columbian legend. The United States itself, looking back upon it, is but a vast wilderness, peopled by savages, themselves without origin save such as backed Topsy with her kith and kin. The new outlook is as covetous of the | past as it is curious about the future. | Within its rush man is, as ever, the paramount issue. Different only, the the angle of approach, the method of pursuit, the scope and depth of the findings. The old questions persist, goading and unescapable. Where did | he come from? How long has he been {in residence, 5o to speak? Where is he | going when, the coals burned low and the lights turned out, the earth is dark | and cold, inhospitable, uninhabitable? And what of gorgeous expansion waits | between the present and that grim day | of ultimate eviction? Same old ques- | tlons. For answer, the new savant turns | again to the earth, already so open to| serious overture, 5o Tesponsive to earnest | invitings. The spade-man once more. | His digging-kit packed, the S.byl's wand | or the hazel rod of science in his hand, he goes tapping the surface here and there in answer to the faint tugging of l}lfie divining witch's-hazel that leads m. Down in Yucatan, that slender sud- den ouithrust of Mexico into the Gulf, | the archeologists made their way, under the encouragement and support of the Carnegle Institution. And a sharp ac- tivity of excavation sei in. Finally th earth yielded, opening a secret pouch | of astonishing trcasure. Buried cities, | ar entombed civilization, a vanished | race came gradually into view. The ! mystery of the Maya had come into the i open for report and accounting. It was as if the earth, having again botched the risky business of man-making, had washed ‘her hands of the whole affair and had called upon her agents to clear away the, rubbish. And Time, the greatest of them all, set to do her com- mand. Tidal waves from the sea helped. So did torrents of rain seasons through, and the weatherings of tropic sun and air. Earth tremors were fine, %o, for | unsettling foundations. And mountains. Isick and hot, ejected their fires and |threw out their molten disorders. And this went on for a hundred years. For five times that, and more. A masterly !job, leaving but a monstrous mass of |'greenery, impenetrable and, somehow, sinister and forbidding. But science has no fear, and the spade work went on. Then came the | emergence of a people, possessed of an | ordered existence, of architecture and art, of military efficiency, of religion to | g0 ‘along Wwith war as it has ever been | constrained to do. Of human sacrifice | to some fierce god whose symbol, carved | on wall and facade, was the feathered scrpent, between its spread jaws the | head of a human. Significant symbol A dizzying drama, this epic of the| Mayas. One of discomposure, even | fear, to the microscopic atom reading | it in a foreboding distrust of his own| fate, the fatz of all. For the earth is ruthless in a short-shrifting to her own creations. We all know, a little at least, about | the reconstructions of Yucatan. Some- | thing about the famous metropolis of Chichen Itzl, a pious town given to human sacrifices, frequent and abun-j| dant, for placating and supplicating | the flerce and mighty Rain God. So beautiful maidens were gathered in to propitiate this ancient god-man with | beauty, rare gems and other precious( things, but very specially with beautiful | maidens. Every scrap of the story is rich in both historic valuz and engrossing in- terest. An up-reach from the region | to owr own Southwest gives a very real call for study of the relics and/ shreds of custom that without such | derivation would b2 inexplicable at many a point of query in that quarter. No page of man's past is negligible. Since his future demands so much of illumination and direction. Earl Norris has made record of & single chapter in the work of the sei- entists in Yucatan. The first count for this particular record is that of the plain story. If any cne can deliver a “plain story” from this whole glamor- ous business he deserves, ard will get, wide and attentive acceptance. In the busincss mood of going to work every day, Mr. Morris gives the inception of his particular work and the prepara- tions that he made to carry it out. Just another matter of digging the ground, with days and days of it. Then a_sign of the thing sought. A broken shaft, & rubble of banked refuse, a riven column w.'h clear design of carv- ing upon it. Mo.2 of these, and more. Then the cleaninz of these real sig- cances from th: mere litter of dirt and piled debris. ilunting for the unit of construction upon which the struc- ture was based, finding the mathema- tical key to the whole. A dream before the eyes for leadership, scientifically exact. Work, only in the hands. Work, ardors of it. Enthusiasms and de- spairs fighting each other lustily. = A new day each morning, fresh prospects gathered from rest and sleep. Then up and at it again. And all this in such detail of rt and explanation that a reader simply goes along in something close to an actual partaking in the great project of rescuing a very real civilization from absolute oblivion. And when the task of this group is ended there stands, re-created, “The Temple of the Warriors,” figure in the kind and measure of Maya civilizaticn. This temple alone stands as a revealer of the art of the Mayas, just as it also points upon the religion of the ple and upon its practices of war, Upon the national offshoots be- sides cf these two human lons hout time—war and rel 5 from such hisf 1 throug] the temple ctual of its original beauty, the. very exactitudes of its original de- sign. Strajghtforward as thisaccount is— £3 helpfully is—no live human could remain whelly prosaic through this thrilling work of resurrection, of repro- | ritory, | popped A A. The 1873 program was formulated in At this time 22 States, 1 Ter- Great Britain, Canada and mis- sions in India participated. The pro- gram, which has been continued, pro- vided for a two-year plan in which les- sons should alternate between the Old and New Testaments. Q. How did the separation of Nor- way and Sweden come about?—G. J. A. Norway separated from Sweden in 1905. On June 7 of .ihat year the King of Sweden refused to sign an act | establishing separate Norwegian con- sulates, and the Norwegian ministry resigned. whereupon the Nérweglan Storthing voted that the union between Norway and Sweden had been dissolved, since the King of Sweden had acknowledged himself unable to form a Norwegian ministry and could not discharge his constitutional functions. Q. How many men were there in Coxey's Army?—J. L. O. A. The number of men in Coxey's Army varled at different times. Don- ald L. McMurray in his “Coxey's Army” makes the following statement: “The depleted ranks of the commonweal were partially refilled between the moun- tains and Washington, but the number did not again reach the 500 mark be- fore it arrived in the District of Co- lumbia. Coxey had predicted that he would have 100,000 men on May 1, 1894. His army never exceeded a few hundred, but there were other groups of men, such as Galvin's men_in Ohio, Fry's army in Indianapolis, Randall's in Chicago, and Kelly with some 1,500 men was marching across Iowa.” Q. Is it true that England has higher taxes than any other country?—T. L The taxes of England are approx- imately higher than any other nation. the rate being at least 25 per cent of the total income. Q. Would the same amount of pop ccrn weigh the same whether raw or B. D. sion team within the kernel pro- duced by heat, and a certain amount of moisture is, therefore, lost from the popped kernel. given off, as indicated by the charac- teristic odor of popping corn. A pound of pop corn will, therefore, weigh Sightly less after it is popped, al- though this may not be enough to de- tect on an ordinary pound scale. Q. Why is Dean Inge called the R. M. ‘gloomy dean”?—E. R. L A. The Very Rev. Willlam Ralph Inge, dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, London, is sometimes spoken of as the “gloomy dean” on account of a some- what pessimistic view of the present state of affairs publicly announced by him. No one would accept office, | pops because of the expan- A volatile ofl is also | C J. HASKIN. Q. When first used for | eircuses?—T. H. | _A. Francis Kelley in the National | Geographic says that circuses were not presented under canvas until 1826, al- though circus exhibition in the United | States had its beginning in 1785. | Q. When was the first game law passed in this ‘country>—B. N. | A. What may be said to be the first aw was one passed in 1623 by |the Flymouth Colony, declaring al hunting ond fishing to be free, except {on private proper | _Q If a United States post office had {money in a bank that failed, would | that bank pay the United States 100 | per cent on the dollar or would Uncls | Sam be paid off the same as any other | depositors?>—L. C. S. A. Under the law, the postmaster, | who is under bond, is primarily respon- |sible for postal funds, whether in his possession or in a bank. The Post Of- fice Department deals with him and | bolds him responsible. 1In practice many cases have arisen with a general rule of practice substantially as fol- lows: In case the deposit is in a State- chartered institution, the postmaster who has made a deposit has been held by the courts to be a preferred creditor on the ground that, in fact, the funds | involved” are Government funds. In the case of deposits in national banks. the postmaster must, as an individual, take his place along with other Ce- positors. In neither case dees the Gov- ernment stand to lose, because the in- dividual postmaster is responsible. It takes a special act of Congress to re- | lieve him. Q. Isn't Mary Garden, the singer, a native American?—W. S. A. Mary Garden was born in Aber- deen, Scotland, but she was brought to this country at the age of 6. Q. Upon what food do Rocky Moun- tain goats subsist?>—N. T. A. Their food seems to consist chiefly of the short almost lichen-like moss that grows cn the rocks and in the crevices between them. were tents H Q. Why did the Army and Navy serv- ice "schools discontinue their annual foot ball encounter?>—M. B. A The Army and Navy discontinued their annual game after the 1927 game. The reason for this was that West Point would not adhere to the three-year eligibility rule. The Naval Academy and other universities observe this rule, and the Naval Academy discontinued its relations with the Military Acad- emy when it refused to agree. Ac- cording to the newspapers, the two academies have agreed to play-a post- season game for charity this Fall. Last year the Army and Navy, post-season game in New York, lected about $400,000 for the Salvation Army. Q. Which of the two books, “The Mirrors of 1932” and “Washington Merry-Go-Round,” is having the larger sale?’—H. W. A. The booksellers say that the “Merry-Go-Round” has enjoyed _the larger sale, and the demand for it is steadily increasing. Q. Is the Folger Shakespeare Memo- rial a part of the Library of Con- gress?—T. C. A. It is not. The trust is vested in the trustees of Amherst College. The |administrator chosen by the trustees was, however, a veteran member of the Library of Congruss stafl. | Q. What races are represented in the modern English race?—B. H. T. | "A. The modern English race is a mixed one as a result of various in- vasions, notably those of the Angles and Saxons, the Scandinavian and Teu- tonic_peoples. There are also Norman and Celtic admixtures. Sir Thomaé Lipton Acclaimed As Model of Sporismanship American admiration for the sports-' manship of Sir Thomas Lipton is voiced as death ends his career at the age of 80. He is ranked among the great because of the galiant fights made by his challenging Shamrocks and the cheerful optimism which characterized his career. “Sir Thomas probably closed his eyes after a wink of satisfaction. Why should a great loser impair his reputation with a victory?” savs the Asbury Park Press, with the tribute that “he lost with more grace than most men demonstrate in victory.” The Toledo Blade thinks “it is conceivable that he held to his dreams to the day of his going away, for it was not within him to sur- render.” The Salt Lake Deseret News remarks, “Who remembers the Ameri- |can winners of the trophy or who particularly cares? But everybody re- { members Sir Thomas Lipton, the cheer- ful loser.” Quoting the words, “Hope springs eternal,” the Providence Bulle- tin comments, “He symbolized that glorious frailty to_millions of people all over the world. Warm, genial, gallant sportsman! Americans feel a personal loss in his death.” A distinguished New York yachtsman is quoted by the Atlanta Journal as aving said, upon the occasion of the last race, that “the Americans would lose regardless of how the competition went, since the regret we would feel over defeating Sir Thomas again would nullify the glow of triumph.” The Journal also declares, “America may be proud of writing for Sir Thomas the perfect epitaph, ‘The world's best loser." No memorial could characterize him more fittingly, and none could say more. Certainly so gallant a sportsman would not have wished for more than that— the unfeigned, admiring tribute of a Nation, offered upon the cup presented to him in New York.” * 0 & “To many it will seem as if Sir Thomas has sailed away in the Sham- rock, steered to the West with a smile on his face and & hand raised in cheer- ful salute,” suggests the Oakland Trib- une, while the Allentown Morning Call states: “He has set his sails and swung his helm for a journey into the vast unknown, There, let it be hoped, he will meet with those gallant salts who, for almost 80 years. were identified with the holding_or the attempt to take the America’s Cup.” “He was Britain's greatest unofficial !ambassador,” says the Portland Oregon Journal, while the Danbury Evening News feels that “it is something to be so gallant a contender that the ‘en- emy’ is as fond of you as your own people,” and the Scranton Times holds that “in the United States he was be- loved more than any other Britisher.” The Rockford Register-Republic pays Ithe tribute, “He had the qualities that win and hold friends, ffom King Ed- ward VII to the humblest clerk, and the world has lost a gallant gentle- man.” . “The most beloved international sportsman,” is the estimate of the Manchester Union. The Minneapolis Star_remarks: “A poet has =id that the Great Scorer does not ask whether we won, but how we played the game. If that be true, certainly opposite the name of Sir Thomas Lipton is written today, ‘100 per cent.’” "The Star also comments: “The world of sport has ceveloped many champions whose and then, indulge himself to a minute of exultation and joy, of pure self-pride mixed artfully with tne artist's con- sclence in the work that he and his associates t pi ance of many readers quite sold out, so to speak, to that cld adventure in Yucatan. To the Ti- ment of the Maya in being civilized more than 500 years ago, and in this New World, too, which, as it appears, is not so-ypung in human stuff as it has s0 been counted to be, names have been etched deeply upon the tablets of history. But never in our memory has it produced a sports- man so_much entitled to immortality as Sir Thomas.” The Baltimore Sun declares that be “lived a life which was certainly one of the most success- ful of the last 100 years,” while the Charlotte Observer pays the tribute: “He was the jolliest and the finest type of sportsman’the world ever produced, and yacht races of the future will not be what they were when Lipton's par- ticipation aroused international inter- est.” The Hamilton, Ont., Spectator avers: “The world is the poorer for hiy passing from the scene. ere was never a sportsman quite like that witty Irishman.” * * kX Describing the yachtsman as “a good g “putsued a worthy quest ly,” the Charleston (S. Evening Post says of his career: “He failed in the chief ambition of his life, but he made a great score in sportsmanship, and he won the admie ration and affection of the American people, and, at the last, the recognition of the premier yachting authority of his own country in his election & few months ago to membership in the Royal Yacht Squadron, which had for 5o long held its door closed to him.” “He leaves a shining memory of good sportsmanship that will long be an ex ample to the world.” observes th¥ Duluth Herald, and the San Antonic Express, recognizing the same fact, of- fers the comment: “The race is nod always to the swift: time and chance bear their part. The sportsman recogs nizes that truth, and goes out not g much to win as to play the game. If | he has done his best—while scrupulous- ly keeping the rules—he is content, whatever the issue. Sport—any sport— ‘ which inculcates such qualities is worth preserving and cultivaung. _The genu- | ine sportsman is also a philosopher— for life itself is a game.” | “As a player of the game for the fun of it, he might well stand as a model | for athletes and sportsmen everywhere.” in the opinion of the Dayton Daily | News, and the Des Moines Tribune- | Capital offers the judgment: “Inter- national sport loses one of its most ad- | mirable figures. - The record of his life- |long and indefatigable pursuit of the America’s Yachting Cup is unique in | sports_annals. = Some admirers of the | the admiral will be inclined to express regret that victory, through all the | vears of compvetition, did not even once | Test upon his shoulders. Others, how- ever, will feel that his real joy, after all, was in the quest and not in the achievement, and that he gained. by the unfailing good spirit with which he met defeat after defeat. more of the essentials of victory than he ever could have reilized from the mere win- ning of a cup. The world of sport will feel keenly the loss of this gallant exemplar of the spirit of true sports- ‘manship. R~ ; Thv‘y Float On Floods. | From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. | Celluloid chopsticks are being intro- | duced into China, and that may be one | cause of the general unrest there, bt New Type Navy Holiday. | Prom the Cincinnat! Times-Star. | Those British tars favored a new type of naval holiday. i« SO, Workers Get Little Benefit. From the Springfield, Mass., Daily Republican. st.oclu' r:lgotnlfed buoyantly z: mi ‘wage cut, bul e -earners not hold so many lhlr;‘:: they did. i ——— Smuggling Omits Racket. From the San Antonio Evening News. _;Alll:: racket a:: 120 million dollars™ ut the smuggling itself is done withe - put much racket, . SERTRRES