Evening Star Newspaper, October 31, 1931, Page 6

TAR, WASHIM THE EVENING STAR |bant—ot ventisting too vociferousiy | jointiy used. On Thursday Judee Ses- | ~ " vt Sundsy Morning Ediion anti-Fascist sentiment—it & ruthiessly | bury endesvored to ascertain why Mr | - curbed. The “Special Military Tribu-| Sherwood and the mayor. after ap- | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS iAo o ., WASHINGTON, D. C. ATURDAY . . ...October 31, 1831 "SHEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor “The Evening Star Newspaper Company Busir, is _Ave B Ferrints Y Caxo e Michizar Boudine 14 mepent W e . London, Rate by Carrier Within the City. 43¢ per month 1 tion #0c per month a5 5 Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. E‘i and Sunday. , ”. lna - e 4 iny only ... ”. All Other States and Canada. fl]{v lnf Bunday. . I“ 1mo. 81 iy e imo. sy only . . . 1 mo.. Member of the Aseoclated Press. Associated P is exclusively enti ‘s "ise. for repunfication of &1l 1evs credited 1o | this paper Star 294 Sundey Miar 0 end Bundey Sar nys) per month ar per copy ade st the end of each month sent in by mail or telephone 1m0 1mo e 80 imo. 40c tied e news on of nal for the Defense of the State after that, {known as the Ovra have not viously done everything necessary nip subversive snti-Musselini agitation jin the bud Yet Benite Mussolini Jooks | par if the 30000 secret police | pre- | mayor's first election to | = has eontrivad, | getting slong very well with » in box from a year before the found it neces- ¥ to rept a tin bux three or four times the size in October. 1930. At present this mystery is not solved. Meanwhile Mr. Sherwood remains in sm: BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. i | | Laughs are of many kinds, but for | ordinary purposes they may be divided ! into two classes, the pleasant laugh and as no other Malian statesman before | Mexico City and repeats that he has no | the irritating laugh | him, t> command the full confidence of | the people. Disapprove as they may of | many of the strong-arm methods to around at the Mexican capital in the | i human. and the laugh is & typical | which Pascism resorts to solidify its suthority and stifle opposition, the | eountry has come to realize that Italy's name never stood higher in the world than it does today. Italians have been brought to understand. during Musso- | for & heavy fine which his defiance of | vears. that they enjoy abroad | summons will entail lini's n the widest respect and prestige | country has pessessed in modern ti | Countless thousands of Mussolin their } immediate subpoena intention of leaving. Two servers are still hanging hope of persuading him to return Judge Seabury 18 moving to institu { contempt proceedingt against the ab. sent agent of the mayor. involving the | sequestration of his assets as security s, | DOXes yet to be brought to light. s | the possibilities of evidence of the thrift Probably there are some other tin All e | people look upen the dietatorship as an |0 Tammany office holders, who have evil, but, as Paul Oremona, Rome corre- | Shown such a decided antipathy te or- | spondent of the Christian Science Mon- |fl'n"!' checking accounts in the banks, itor, states in the opening article of a Dave not been exhausted. }nmnb!o series on Pascist Ttaly, “they | R ot | agree in considering it a necessary evil, | The Edison Memorial Beacon. | which came into being as a result of | Proposal s made for the erection in ; R | during the Duee’s lifetime.” - Inspector Shelby. Assistant Superintendent of Police | Shelby retires from the Police Depart- | ment today after a service of twenty- nine years. The action of the District | Supreme Oourt yesterday in expunging from the records the special report of a grand jury that two years ago un- { justly eriticized him serves also to re- move, with due formality, the only stain on his official record as a police officer. For his many friends the action was unnecessary, for to them the stain was never there. But it is well that this tardy recognition of injustice has been made. A year after his promotion in 1927 to the assistant superintendency of police Inspector Shelby asked to be retired. | A physicians’ . report, however, found him physically able to continue in the, service. He was ordered before the| Board of Police and Pire Surgeons this month by Maj. Pratt, who acted on the recommendation of Shelby's private physician, and the board recommended his retirement beeause of poor health. ‘To Inspector Shelby the Police De- partment owes the adoption of many new methods in police work, recom- mended after careful study. He was the founder of the Police School for Recruits, and for many years he made this training school his special hobby. It was never given the importance or the equipment that he asked for it or which it deserved. He was a real stu- { n thresten to cut “those upon buying move- has directed a great bors, depression, ‘meth li g ,séig ¥g i dent of police organization, a believer in thorough training of police recruits and a bitter ecritic of the lack of such training. When there is established some day a school for police recruits that is worthy of the name, Inspector Shelby will receive the recognition tha is his due. 3 His specialty was administrative and personnel work. To a friend he com- plained, not long ago, that his troubles T of restoring be to mumle the|started when “they tried to make a who are doing their | detective out of me.” And it is true it down. What has Mr.|that he was made chief of the De-| H £ & | # ] : i | the breakdown of the democratic and | Potomac Park, in this city, of a me- 7¢% | liberal regimes in the post-war period The average Italian still believes that Restoring Confidence. | the Pascist dictatorship is a transitory | One of the fundamental proposals of regime which will gradually evolve into | fhe ten-point program for business re- some form of modified constitutional | &overy outiined by the Wheeler com- | government.” Mr. Cremona holds this | Mittee was that liberal spending is | hope to be a fallacy and records the | Peotssary—“the worker wha curtails | belief of Pascist leaders that “no modi- | expenditures to barest necessities for | fication of the Pascist method of gov- | Sear that his current employment may | ernment should be expected, at least | e temporary, contributes definitely to he loss of his job. * * * Normal buying a8 herein used does not mean extrav gant buying, but only the use of avail- able resources for purchase of normally fieeded goods in the replacement of ‘Which labor must be employed.” Nobody can contest the soundness @ that theory. But to whom is the sdvice addressed? To the worker, in ‘who is asked to resume normal . But Mr. Wheeler knows as well as anvhody that people are not going to resume normal buying merely because somebody tells them to do so. fhey will resume it when they feel con- Bdent that their own sécurity of pay employment permits it. «~ What is the situation here in Wash- fpgton regarding security of pay and ~employment on the part of Govern- ment employes? Everybody knows it morial beacon as a national tribute to the genius of Thomas A. Edison. As tentatively planned at present, it is to take the form of a Grecian tripod and brazier, carrying at the top a bow] from which will be projected a beam of light. sufficiently powerful to be seen for a distance of ome hundred miles. The location suggested is Hains Point, at the extremity of the park, where the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers join. This plan is advanced by a special local committee of the Edison me- | morial organization and is now under consideration as to details. WNo appeal is to be made to the public for sub- scriptions, inasmuch as the cost of the memorial is to be met by privite in- terests. When the plans are definitely framed they will be submitted to the Commission of Fine Arts for approval. Such a beacon. so situated, would be & significant and enduring testimonial of the appreciation of the American people for the inestimable blessing of Edison's greatest achievement. It would be {n view of millions of people. It would fittingly demonstrate the value of his discovery of a method of trans- forming eleetricity into light for all uses. No more suitable place could be chosen for such a testimonial to the “Wizsard of Menlo Park.” Hains Point, where it is proposed to erect the beacon, is visited annually by & countless throng of people, from all parts of this ecoun- | try. Every day the river drive is trav- ersed by travelers from the States, making Washington their objective At night. in clement weather, this route is taken by almost as many as during the day. It is regarded as one of the most impressive and significant touring courses in America. To place at the point a symbol of Edison's gift to humanity would be in every respect appropriate and effective. It is a matter of congratulation that the plan for this eloquent expression of appraisal has been advanced and is likely to be executed so speedily after the passing of the man whose death occurred only a few days ago. Usually such works rest in the limbo of consid- eration and discussion and halting preparation until the memory of the one to be honored has faded. The Ed- ison beacon should be lighted .as quickly as possible. . A man’s sentiments are always likely Human beings normally accept laugh- ter without thinking about it. | Ome laughs. does one not, because one trait of the race? But_there is more to it than that Why does one laugh? A laugh. sfter is merely a contortion of the mus- cles. of the face. mouth and throat. re- sulting in a peculiar sound or sounds. And what a noise it is, after all! One has to stop and think about & | laugh as a laugh, however, to realize | to the full the infinite silliness in the sound of human laughter, so used are | we all to hearing it, and to accepting | 1t witheut thought. Wise men in every age have realized how braying a noise the laugh is. As | intensely human as it is. they have seemed to feel that ita essential hu- manity has not been enough to save it from the group of actions of which should be a bit ashamed That is why the reader finds Lord | Chesterfield, in his letters to his som, advising that voung man to refrain from loud laughter. A well bred smile would do. he indicated. Thousands of men, less well known |in their days. have come to much the same conclusions, without Chesterfield's aid. It is only a natural revuision from the common, noisy laugh which, despite the fact that all humanity is used to laughter, nevertheless attracts immediate attention to itself by rea- s0n of a certain peculiarity. R s uliarity often displays itself in the characteristic noise of some ani- mal, such as a hen clucking, or a donkey brmnh Every one ows some one whose laughter is distinctive in this respect P!‘l‘iupn it is fiattering it to call such a laugh distinctive. “Irritating” would it better. There are hundreds of these animallike laughs, some resembling the neighing of a horse, others the cackling of geese, and others the roars of e 1y ry creatures as yet not named by the scientists. ‘This ter among others by his own peculiar laugh, of which, at the same time, he is sublimely unaware. Pew people have ever listened to themselves laugh; and perhaps those 1who have done so have wondered mightily about it. The great Caruse dic so when he listened to the record of his aria from “Pagliacei,” but the de- spairing laugh sounded there is typi y “grand opera stuff” and has no more relaticn to reality than most grand Em(ly Bron ing Helghts” i more or less 8 literary ancestor of A. J. Cronin's James Brodie in “Hatter's Castle,” one of the out- standing novels of recent months. Brodie is, however, more understand- able, more flesh and blood, in all his **ee brutality, than Emily Bronte's per- One will be toid that there is 1o |sonification- of insane moroseness and pride mnvolved in the matter at all Fhat laughter is & purely spontancous | CTUelty. Reviewers have criticived action, that this very lack of premedi- | “Hatter's Castle” for unrelieved gloom tation is at once the glory of and the [and tragedy, but that is not wholly excuse for laughter. One would NOt|fair There is the character of Renwick, gainsay the point. Laughter comes to i full born. "No one chooses his laugh, | the doctor of high ideals. g s It is well to remember that, sometimes, | TOMmAaNticism and thorough A St e irritated at the giggle | DO goes far to offset Brodie. Perhaps or the of an aequaintance. there s some professional partiality in No one selects his own laughter. A |Dr. Cronin's choice of & physician for man has no more to say about his finest character. Mary Brodie, {he shall laugh than if he were doing [ 9aughter of the monster of egotism and it vm;—m eise’s face. The laugh o e God-given, as they say, like one's |eves, or the color of one's hair. Even | Sbsolute heredity. And at the end there the motion pleture actress who was a |15 Some happiness permitted. even brunette, Who comes out now as amidst the wreckage of the lives of latinum blonde " does not think of | MOst of the persons concerned. There | e the style of her laughter. You |5 something almost Shakespearean | with your laugh. It would |2PoU book—a tragedy of fate. As | give you away anywhere " it is as true | i All Shakespeare's tragedies, the fate vestrained laugher pause. 1If this in- strument of brass can be made to imi- | tate so suceesstully the throaty gurgles {of a men whose funny bone has been | struck, what pride is there left for & | human being in his own accomplish- | ment? in her tience and uncon- rage, ws the thwarting of | © | lies in character defect or_sbnormality. 83 & fingerprint, Some day police de- | 1y, terrible character of Brodie brings disaster to nearly all who come in con- tact with him and finally to himself. James Brodie is a Scotch hatter in the town of Levenford, in the land of Clyde estuary, who has built himself an absurd house in imitation of a eastle and has a fixed idea. which he secretly does not himself believe in, that he is descended from a family of the local gentry, the Wintons. rtments will “laugh-) t” their sub- jects by reading them funny storles and taking down on phonograph records the | sounds of their typical laughter. Espe- cially would this be valuable in the case of those persons with these iar, animallike haw-haws and tee- ees. The chances would be a thou- sand to one that the victims would never suspect that there was anything torment to his family. He is probably Many such fellow helps create laugh- | over” on the authorities by trying t0 laugh like ladies and gentlemen, the very first happening or story which at least a ‘“border-line case’—dour, selfish. brutal to his wite. mother. son struck their sense of humor would Prove | Aoaression meenter: e A o their undoing. he loves. As life brings him the retribu- They would be unable to stop that | tion he merits h adds to his other sins old. old “belly-laugh,” as it is some- |those of drunkenness and licentiousness. times vulgarly called, from welling up | In the end he is left alone, broken, his out of their being. Such laughter is ce_crushed, with only his senile uncontrollable, that is why the wise | mother, mumbling by the fireplace, as she man fears it. as he does all things com Which are not under control by the | o orifanien. by e T B T s, to il mind or heart of man. Every one |Castle" xically, a cheeri book rmunu of dmi‘:fis‘, ;mnws h:m(. close to tears su{c)\ laughter ies; that is another reason for disliking | general ; “bisow |it, ~Heaven knows, there ate enough Sioh SompItery uBhbpry vee Wi tears e out meeting them seems bearal ‘com. | one’s very laughter! . iblq "Ny bom- | The deepest, most characteristie, peculiar laughter of a human being | leaves ijts trator its victim. He realizes that whereas he began in fun, | he_is ending in earnest. These strange sounds, verging on sobs | —these wet eyes, suspiciously akin to | tears—whence come they, and why? | ‘The man does not kn He tries * k¥ ¥ o ‘The characters in “Hatter's Castle” are living and gripping. We suffer with them and are impatient with them | because they are terrorized by Brodie, yet understand how it could easily be . m live their ?n‘m nd‘:l:? them for 3 e 3 on ‘to the dominant Bb:‘oz opera affairs. to get hold of himself, because he has | Bo-called “laughing songs.” too, little | gone too far and is no longer comfort- resemble the real thing. A trombone able. He is somewhat ashamed of can be made to imitate a heavy guf- | himself. He wonders, and resolves never faw sort of laughter with telling effect. to do =0 foolish a thing again—if he Perhaps this fact should give the un- | can help it. Iowa’s Cattle Test Conflict Charged to Small Minority riotous protests | soldiers with fixed bayonets to advance Spectacular and upon a group of American farmers.” against Towa's law providing for the tu- , | "The "Wheeling Intelligencer offers the | berculin test of cattle have aroused wide | oxpianation: “It is quite likely the Towa comment, but the conflict is charged to | situation is the result of a combination a small minority of the citizens of that of circumstances—ignorance on the State. There is only condemnation for |Part of the farmers of the necessity of five others have their home in Hatter's Castle. M ret Brodie, his wife, a poor. thing. -#ho sometimes makes us feel that she almost deserves the contempt with which he Tegards her. He needs a shrew to deal with him and gets one when he takes Nancy to live with him. Mrs. Brodie, like a scared rabbit, rushes about in fear and ineffectiveness to serve him. She adores her worthless son Matthew and sneakingly smu delicacies to him, gives up to him her itiful savings, and covers up his faults rom his father. Fear makes her join Brodie in his cruelty to Mary and his slave-driving of Nessie. She is disliked by her old mother-in-law just on gen- eral principles and because Brodie and: his mother are somewhat alike. Even when death faces her, Mrs. Brodie is apologetic because she can no longer lorm _the household drudgery. Riatthow Brodie/the only son. combines i agitation for salary eut- Testore confidence? What tural reaction throughout the on the part of business and the workers generally, when salary cut- ting and part-time work are being threatened in Washington? Is there apything that can be counted upon more surely to take the heart out of a Budding business revival? § § 5z ¥ ¥ H ! by Great Britain in terms so unmis- takable that U. S. sentiment cannot fail o be gratified. While the voters could not elect an American to Parliament, they came as near doing so as possible. e As an exponent of drastic social the- orjes, G. Bernard Shaw has not shown enough election influence at home to csuse Stalin to regard him as a very wvaluable Soviet press agent — to be influenced by the busin, tective Buresu, not because he asked | ;.ng Mr Newton Baker's blaxr":ph)e: f0 Ah% work: or because his previous | oy that as e man of peace he was a Sraining had given him any peculiar| yuoougn pecifist; as & Seoretary «of fitness, but because he happened to be | o ‘un ardent warrior " the ranking police officer available for: d s/ the job. A few months after his taking | piayers take foot ball as seriously as | charge of the bureau & storm broke Over | i it were a matter of lfe and death, his head in the form of the McPher- | ang sometimes, unfortunately, it is just son case and he never fully recovered | gngy 5 from the nervous strain to which a wholly undeserved personal attack sub- | jected him He retires now with the good wishes | | of the community he has served faith- | | fully and well. The Star wishes him Masquerade. many happy hours among. his books On Halloween the masquerade and the contentment that comes with | Brings merriment. when, half afraid, & clear conscience. an untroubled mind | The children—and the Brown-ups, too— and & good appetite In semblances grotesque we view. ey ¢ LA What a misfortune it would be It the custom of compelling racket- men to pay their tax obligations in full ; :fi‘:"\:‘: :;T"' ‘;‘;‘h n::":‘"“" Myl can be firmly established, Uncle Sam | o 12 % @ B - may not have to devote quite so much | T CreVeT looking just that way! Y SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. A naval expert is called upon to be #he kind of bookkeeper who knows how anxious attention to threats of & Treas- ury deficit. There is no use of waiting We are like discouted elves And go in hiding from ourselves o run a satisfactory ledger as well as | for private repentance to turn sums so | With grim pretenses till we tire & log. large over to the conscience fund. ————— Nine Years of Fascism. Nine years of Pascism-——perhaps it|ship Constitution may be regarded as g0 gict would be more accurate to say nine years of Mussolini-—came to an end in Ttaly yesterday following the observance with Becoming honors of the anniver- | sary of the march on Rome. The Black Shirt regime approaches the ceonclusion of its first decade of dic- tatorial power more firmly intrenched then ever. It faces influential oppo- sttlon, for the most part covert rather than open. but Il Duce's sway is vir- tually unchallenged, and evidently un- challengeable. Not even the annals of the Caesars record a Rome ruled by & more dominating person: than the remarkable man who hok the destinies of 40.000 000 Italians in the palm of his hand. Were his ama: ing career to be terminated today ‘Benito Musso) ne would be s cure. He i one of history’s maste figures While s handful of courageous Sen- Ctoce and Lugi Alberti thunder unsuppresid at the tv of the Fascist government, and wh Mussolini’s polit maintain their hostility tigpary propaganda, Italy goe alopg the road of peaceful progress | Efficiency and vigor mark its e Eoconomic depression we country. as upon others solinl touch keeps the n: steadily in the direction of a stronger and more prosperous Italy. “The procession is not moving in that environment amid which non-Fascist lands are accustomed to work out their salation. Political parties, other than the PFascist, are prohibited. Elections .the National Parliament are gane hh with, from time to time. but thelr outcome is assured in advance always knows he will have its way e Determination to preserve the old | symbolic of the intention to maintain in full integrity the revered document after | which the ship was named. r——— | Tammany's Tin-Box Era. The future historian of city govern- | ment in New York will probably desig- the period of Mayor Jimmy Walker's administration of municipal affairs as the “tin-box era.” Tin boxes are coming to light in the course of the inquiry now being conducted by a committee of the State Legisiature into the ways and means of Tammany over the metropolis There was the wonder box" of Sheriff Farley, into which poured wealth by the tens of | thousands of dollars and out of which came current and extre penses far in excess of that and acknowle th ens County re- admitted as And other ¢ to time been brou ter than those flowing from recog- The lates e U of Mayor Walker himsel!. In two tin boxes. & small one for several yea and a much larger one for the past year. These tin bdo: of Mayor Walker, it i e led by documentary and unde- niable evidence, were not heid by alone, but were to the “joint account.” | as 1t were, of himself and Mr. Russel { Sherwood, his friend and accountant who went abruptly to Mexico on what Of what our phantasies inspire. And when the breeze has sung “good night," ant skies are glowing bright, Each smiles and thanks his lucky star That we are simply as we are. Values and Currency. “What is vour idea of the relationship of gold and silver to money?” “Just now,” said Senator Sorghum t's nothing to worry about. A cam- paign contribution of any important size is likely to come along in the form of & check.” Jud Tunkins says the longest argu- ments are started by people who think something is so simple that it can all be expiained in a few words Change. The Russian said. “I need not go on nt travels through the snow en a new city I would see, t and let it come to me St. Petersburg was not so bad, Nor Petrograd, nor Leningrad, It patiently I linger here Where will T be this time next year?” Depression. What do you regard as the cause of bu depression > d losers,” replied Mr. Dustin Stax. Some people can't be happy unless they are collecting profits all the time and start an endless chain of gloom “One who fears nothing. of two things; rather foolish.” exceedingly brave, or Busy Little Jail. A bootleg boy hard luck deplores | has been styled a dl\'orte-lnd-wrddmgl That starts him moving quicker imn after Samuel Seabury, the special And has him mopping up the floors counsei for the Investigiting Committee, 'Hmed looking for him. They were con- veniently placed at the disposal of both Instead of lapping liquer. “Try, try again is a good rule” said | said Hi Ho, him the sage of Chinatown, “must be one faction at the results of nine-vear inerease those responsible, and regret that it was necessary to resort to arms to enforce a properly enacted law. “Jowa has enjoyed :mogc the other States,” according to the Sioux City Journ: 'as & common- wealth of the highest standing. It has the lowest percentage of illiteracy in the Union. Its people are counted as the most intelligent as averages go in the entire country. Jowans are known everywhere as blessed with sanity and common sense, obedient to the law, progressive, forward-looking, fair and just. I¢ is & pity that small groups of men who object to a statute should resist its enforcement and thus attract | to all the people of the State so much { untavorable attention.” Charging that those who rebel “in- sist upon jeopardizing the health and lives of their own people and the peo- ple of other States” the Chattanooga Times comments: “That widespread op- position to this means of safeguarding | the health of men, women and children | should have developed in Iowa, which prides k:ueu Jupon its progressiveness, is little short o lmfln’." With a call for “the display of wise leadership on the part of sensible Towans,” the Sioux Falls Argus-Leader remarks: “The testing was ordered in conformity with a State law, approved by the majority and secepted without hesitation th hout all but an iso- lated section of the State. The testing has been conducted without difficulty over a wide section and tubercular cat- tle have been eradicated from most of Jowa. Yet, the one objecting area re- mains. Farmers there resist vigorously and have used force in ejecting testers from their ises. Threat after threat did not induce them to change their stand.” * % “The State will win in its fight compel the tests,” avers the Ann Arbor Daily News, with the.declaration: “Ap- parently it's another of those cases in- volving the question of personal liberty. Persons who oppose prohibition on such grounds should consider the Iowa farmers who are opposed to another statdte that happens to be contrary to what they consider right and | proper. Somehow, idea seems to anail on these Iowa farms that the aw requiring_tuberculosis tests works an irijustice. But by their attitude they are not attracting much sympathy as victims of injustice. They are pro- claiming, in effect, that it is their right to keep tubercular cattle and take a chance of feeding the disease, !in_milk, to babies.” The picture in Jows is seen by the Rochester Times-Union to reveal “not | many ‘contented’ cows,” and “not much cud chewing beneath Autumn leaves or soft lowing in the lane at sunset.” | | That paper continues: “This seems to | be a hopeless fight cn the part of the ! cattiemen. The tests have been pro- | dueing steadily in spite of opposition. | Moreover, the tuberc test is & wise | step in preserving health. Many States have such laws, and they have been | found beneficial. Iowa farmers should not et the cost of this test stand be- tween them and a reputation for healthy cattle and dairy products.” | “There are many morals,” suggests | the Baltimore Evening Sun, “which might be drawn, the most obvious, per- | haps, being summed up in the old saw. | Tt depends on whose ox is gored.' But we refrain from such moralisings and | content ourselves with saying that from | | time immemorial it has been the cus- tom of Americans—only lately noted by so eminent a historian as James Truslow Adams—to choose for them- selves which laws they shall cbey and which they shall defy. Thus Iowa, in following the example of New Jersey and (shall we say?) the Maryland Pree State, is aimply proving herself as American as they. | v ow o the conflict in Iows, ibune expresses satis- After studyi the Oskland campaign to the average ter-fat production of California |and declares that it “shows wbat may be done with the co-operation of science and agriculture.” Declaring that “it is not encouraging to see the National Guard proceeding againgt a group of a lturists in any American State.” the Portland Oregon Journal states: “Legislators have a very heavy respon- sibility when statutes are enacted that invite open revolt. Officials assume a but- a reputation ing. | the work; unwise ‘methods of procedure | the weakness of his mother and the and inadequate educational effort upon | meanness of his father. He is a cow- the part of authorities, and, finally, in- | ard, sneak, dishonest, licentious and efficient work by those doing the test- res for nothing but his own pleasure. . The whole situation emphasizes | Mary Brodie, the older daughter, taken the necung of la an adequate | early from school to help in the house- | foundation of eduecal attempt- | work, is surprisingly ignorant and learns |ing anything in the of govemn- | life through bitter suffering. yet she | mental regulation d remains gentle and good | tically from long-accepted custom.” i|courage which her' mother lacks. : Her ———— i lg'o un..‘:t‘ckfi_l!wmpk‘fix tragedy by % | Dr. " Renwick. e yous Gainfully Occupied. detighter. la e tully’ persan Bt Proin e MewFRIE TINSe. |[loves (after his selfish fashion). She and has the |1 BY PREDERIC J. HASKIN. This i 8 department devoted of jeries. This - ;,..'"'F“""m e | an organtsstion in your extensive R Washington to serve you - city that relates to information. service is free. Fallure to make use of it deprives you of benefits to which you are entitled. Your obliga- tion is 2 inclosed reply. Address formation Bureau, Prederic J. director, Washington, third. - A 50 cent saving is eJected are printed in Jarge sheets and after- ward cut into single notes. The old size bills were printed 8 to the ¥ The new size are made.12 to the 3 What the lengthened life of the ler notes will be as the result of less fold- ing, ceasing and cracking must be de- | termined by experience, but it is ex- pected a substantial saving will result. Q. What is a baldric?—P. L. A. It is & broad beit, often riehly decorated, worn over one shoulder and = the breast, usually to support & Hukte or sword. Q. Please name some countries whose flags are blue and white without sny | Honduras and Nicara; hmnhlt 13% pounds of air to a gallon of fuel oil in an ofi- burning t: of heater>—N. H. A gnynruu of Mines says that | it takes 13% inds of air to burn one pound of fuel oil in this type of heater. . Are pnck;}ru of safety matches | maliable?—P. McA. A. The Post Office Department says that safety matches are mailable only when contained in some kind of a metal box. . What was Edison working on when he stumbled on to the principie which_made the phonograph possible? . B. A. Edison said, “TI was engaged upon a machine intended to repeat Morse characters which were recorded on paper by indentations that transferred their to another eircuit auto- e matically when passed under & tracing | fing point connected with the circuit-elos- ing apparatus. In manipulating this machine I found that when the cylin- | der carrying the indented per . was turned with great swiftness it gave off a humming noise from the indenta- tions, resem| that of human talk t mlndm\n phragm “l,odmm e Ty um a e . ma- chine which receive the sound waves made by my voice when I talked to it, and register them upon an im- pressible material placed on the cylin- der. ln'nnnmmtth-w:‘km n,hh the human speech so that it would be repeated by mechani- cal means as often as might be desired was solved.” Q. How many service commis- sioners are there?” Do they have the power to appoint people to Gvotmm under civil service?’—J. A. P. G. A. There are three 3 Not mare than two can be of the same political party. The Civil Serv- ice Commission does not have the power of appointment or removal. This rema; in the hands of the President and heads of department. U the requisition of ting: oflm, the commission submits the names of eligibles secured as the result of com- petitive examination. Q. What is the of a cat?—W. K. A. They are setae. Q What is the difference between an ordinary ambassador and an ex- traordinary one?—V. G, A. Am lors are ordinary when they reside permanently at a foreign court, or extraordinary when sent on a special occasion. When ambassadors extraordinary are vested with full pow- ers, as of cnnclugjnu , _making treaties and the 3 m“ are called plenipotentiaries. Q. How much is saved by the use of the smaller size of paper money?—G. M. A. The estimates show that there is a saving of one-third in the cost af productien. One-third less of the highly expensive and distinctive psg: uired and one-thifd less ink, the by a ipping weight is reduced A. Argentina, Greece, Guatempla, igua have blue and white flags. Q. 1Is the depression affecting the sales of mc‘kmlm and other forms of ?—H. W. A. The experience of the last year bas indicated a turning to cheaper forms of tobaceo, The severest falling off has been in the r and more expensive types of cigars. Even cf tes consumption fo;‘s:mmbfl‘, 1931, com- red with Sej 1930, shows & i of approximately half a billion. | Cheaper cigars show a gain of about 12,000,000 and smoking tebacco of about 672,000 pounds. Snuff has increased since last September by 439,309 pounds. Q. How many parts or pieces are {there in a violtm and what are they?— K. A." Bachmann's Encyclopedia says that there are 70. They are: Belly, 3 ); ribs, side linings, 12; insi . 24; finger board, 1: Biece. 1; loop, 1 taiipiece. Button. 1 ece, 1; , 1, tailpiece . 13 npo-, 4; strings, 4; bridge, 1. and sound, 1. Q. What is derivation of the word xpshmu . 8. A. It is an American adaptation of the word “pyjama.” from the Persian, whi literally means leg clothing. Q. How many manufacturers of bottled carbonated beverages are there ‘in the United States?-—S. W. A. Theére are approximately 7,500 manufacturers in this category, ems ploying about 120,000 persons, Whose wages are estimated at an aggregate of $400,000,000 annually. . What is a black-out in theatrical pariance?—A. L. D. A. 1t is the turning off all at the end of a skit or sketc] of the falling of the curtain, A there such a thing as a green rose which has not been artificially dyed?—B. A. G. A. A type of green rose known as iridiflora in Baltimore petals are small, pointed, A;\dmol the -m“::lu' as of e rose,‘a green, flower is of medium 5“- and double, is of vigorous It Q. Why is a’clock used for advertis- set at 20 minutes ition of the hands of & is se d for the reason that it fllwrnhhfl ‘t'hee IIQ:.?IL facility u: me; requizements for paini }lonfitr name above the hands the | shortey word below. The hand as been varied 1n 11 to 2§ minutes after Ten years ago the Pederal census fig-/ ures on occupations signalized the re- versal of a trend that had been under way for at least 30 years. The three is a “bright” student, with good mem- ory, but without.originality or reasen- ing power. Her father has become ob- sessed with the idea that she is to bring glory to him by her scholarship, espe- Highlights on the Wide World Excerpts From Ne\t;spaperll of Other Lands the | to | the actual number of workers was 3, cially by the Latta scholarship prize for the university, for which the son .of his most ha town enemy is also a contestant. Nessle, coming to hate her studies, is driven relentlessly by her father to study during every wak- ing moment and the results are tragic. Senile Grandma Brodie has only one real interest—her food. The greatest tragedy which comes to her is the breaking of her false teeth, so that she can no longer chew, and Brodie will not buy her new ones, saying that it is not worthwhile for an old hag who will soon no longer need teeth. Nancy, Brodie’s mistress, whom he brings home |after the death of his wife, avenges some of the wrongs of his wife and daughters without ever Faving the ironical thought that she is, perhaps, an instrument of abstract justice. * * x ¥ ‘The characteristics and history of our - prairies, so different from those of other parts of the country, have im- pressed Prof. Walter Prescott Webb so greatly " that he bhas written a book about them, “The Great Plains.” The Great Plains begin with a line which runs down through the center of Ne- preceding enumerations had shown an| increasing percentage of the population sainfully employed. Of all persons 10 old and over, those so occupied rose 47.3 per cent in the year 1880 to 40.2 per cent in 1890, 50.2 per cent in 1900 and 53.3 per cent in 1910. But the census of 1920 revealed a drop to 80.2 per cent. The decrease was all the more significant because 1920 was still & year of high employment in persistence | of the Nation's war effort. What will the figures for the census of 1930 show? ey are now being issued at Washing- ton in dally installments for separate |towns and States. If one may judge from the samples in hand, the decline | in the ratio of gainfully occupied, which first appeared in 1920, was kept up. But | 1t also seems probable that the shrink- age from 1920 to 1930 will not be so | large as during the preceding period. ‘The question is one of ratios, of course, and not of absolute numbers. Although the 1920 census registered a decline of 3 persons gainfully occupied in every 100 persons over the age of 10, | 500,000 more than in 1910. So the com- | plete figures for 1930 will unquestion- ably show an increase of millions of braska and Kansas and cuts off the western third of Oklahoma. Their characteristis are a vast level surface, cows, | workers, The growth should be kept in | mind. sgainst the exa ted estimates of the effect of “technological unem- { ployment.” To hear e apeak of the railroad workers ant wers dis- placed by invention and new methods one would imagine the workers in this subnormal humidity and absence trees. The conquest of the Plains was agcomplished by our ploneers with the ald of the horse and the six-shooter. Their chief enemies were the lack of water and the Indians. “The frontiers- men on the Plains soon learned that one could not surrender to an Indian. The Indians rarely, if ever, surrendered themselves, and they had no concept of the white man's generosity to a van- quished foe. then one must flee or fight, and in the end must die rather than fall alive into the hands of the enemy. Whether this stern eode was- fully devels in the eastern woodland is uncertain, but it was fully developed in the Plains.” * ¥ % * In Dorothy Canfleld’s new collection of story-sketthes, .she revives some of her memories of Spanish-French Prance under the title, “Basque People.” ) Lying llgfll the fliol'lllier, ;ll;ehBuql;: r more important than invention |C0UNYry has a population which speal nd methods are other factors which | 20th French and Spanish and has | suggest themselves for the reduction of [ 29t French and Spanish customs, but the working ratio of the American peo- | PFides itself on its strictly Basque an- The sharg curtailment of child | CS0irY and type. The unifying influ. le. is a ue bor is one reason. Delaware, in 1920, | STCe In these stories is & Basq had 1406 workers of 15 years and mistress, who knows every one in her section of the country and attempts, in 1930 there were only 533, Seciion of the countey a79 Sitempis This reduction is almost enough to ac- | Jives bp o e Gmmstimes the makes o count for the decline in the State’s bya bunder, ‘as when she promotes gainfully occupied ratio. New Hamp- b , Shire, in 1920, had 1,528 workers of the | Cxra-legally the union of two young gon Industrial | towns like Stamford and Norwalk, in }cennmlcm« show no change at all, against a rather sharp decline from 56.8 .6 for New Britain, in the same . Scattered instances show a 2- decline in two Iowa cities, a slight in Butte, Mont.: a slight rise in In, Nebr, and in the total ob- ly not enough of a cut in percent- 1o affect greatly the absolute in- | crease of 17,000,000 in the total popula- people and, after years of the working out of life, finds that she has helped conscientious young and colleges. A - g is one of the best of the stories, which special cause would be the change for | are very uneven in their interest. An- the better in the status of the Negro.|other is the story of the scheming Southern cities and States show a strik- | village girl who betrays her lover to ingly high ratio of persons ghinfully oc- | a Prench officer whom she hopes there- cupied, because of the very large pro- by to win and, when the lover is killed portion of women and child workers|in a smugg raid, is driven from the If one cannot surrender, | 4, N L SOL, Madrid.—As has already been announced in an offidial notice, the recluses in the mu- nicipal prison at Barcelona have entered upon a “hunger strike,” a measure adopted, they say, by way of protest against the circumstances of their ipcarceration, and especially against the treatment and meals ac- corded them. Many claim that they have been imprisoned arbiirarily and without a hearing in the courts. Seventy- six of these strikers are Communists, imprisoned because they have not taken the oath of fealty to the republic. Fifty- six other prisoners are ‘members of labor unions who have been stirring up trouble. Of these all but two, who are men of advanced age, have joined the hunger strike, In the city anarchists and the police are having constant battles. .In one of these disturbanees near -the. Arco de Triumfo, two workmen were Kkilled. re torn down and the officials he company are reluctant to send them be- cause of the menacing attitude of the rioters. The (union; work- strike . "“In tment sympa workingmen at *x x * Win at Casine Given by Clairvoyant. lener Vienna.—The ncl le in_ spiritism an in- resting vindicaf tel ings at Lyons, d clairvoyants gave demonstrations could not logically be credil human istic communication, Visitors. to a gambling casino noticed that eertain | young ladies were favored with unusual runs of and always left the play- ing tables with constantly aggregated | winnings. These participants invari- | ably wagered their stakes on the contradictions of the chances deemed most favorsble to all the others, but while the latter generally lost, the for- mer repeatedly won. They were watched | by those who wished to know the secret | of their good fortune, and were discoy- ered to visit, after leaving the casino, a | clairvoyant, who gave them for their operations on the following day. These consultants of the omens are said | to have garnered 5,000,000 francs through such auguries. Shall we ac- | cept these reports as true or rather con- sider them but a species of publicity and advertising sent out by the French gambling casino? R Hawaiian Motorists Careful, Survey Shows. Honolulu Advertiser.—"For a period | among the Negroes. A drop now regis- | town by the cutraged villagers. As an tered in communities like Augusta,|esespe devioe,. she then turns saint, | Macon and Lexington, Ky. shows that|and Dorothy Canfield leaves us to de- the of woman and child Iabor is | cide for ourselves whether she. was sin- growing somewhat lighter among the | cere or a hypocrite. colored people also. * x % % ———— granddaughter of Du Capone Just Another Fish. “Trilby” and * Prom the Rockford Resister-Republic . Al Capone was, and probaby still is, mighty man in gangdom, but at olay- ing-the ponies, according to the bookies, he was just another fish. ——————— Finest Flour That Blows. Prom the Columbia State Maurier, extending practically over two and a| half months n;oz; single child has *‘ in s s or IWAY Heieh the motor vehicle has partici- pated,” stated Stanley Livingston, treasurer of the Honolulu Automobile Cl after a study of the accident and u"mb'uy statistics kept at motor club “This excels any period years and shows tha is being made both in convincing drivers that they must is a record that of similar length in t progress 1| through areas where also | denl; exercise care ‘when they are children are play and in having the boys and understand that they must look ways before they cross the street.” 4 * o % Mexican Contractor To t for Ford. La Noticia, Managua.—The Ford Mo= tor Coxis planning to erect a great plany | for the manufacture of its automobiles in ‘Mexico City. The buildings and | their equipment are to cost 3,000,000 | pesos. " Preference will be given the employment of Mexican techniglans and workmen. | tract for the construction of lishment has becn given to a M firm. Manufacturing will commence | when ‘the buildings are completed. = xw* Box of Drab: Politicians Would Not Appeal to Youth. The Bulletin, Sydney, New South ‘Wales.—When some amiabie pacifist was denouncing militarism in the House of Commons the other day, and express= ing ‘his fierce hostility to every token and traj of it, a quiet voice sud- if he had never given a small son a box of toy soldiers, and the mfi was too honest to say he 't. ‘I wonder if some of our Aus~ tralian antiflaggers would own up to such ‘a lapse; also I wonder if tha League of Nations has yet put the manufacturer of toy soldiers out of & job, or whether he has risen to the occasion and devised a substitute. A box of drab and uniformed politicians would have little aj 1 for youth, I am afraid, even if it were explained that they make more wars than soldiers do or ever have. But something might be done with police constables, mounted especial rdians of the law and their f 1v m| to a Boy without any fear this detestable The idea is commended to the New amxyflmvnlq: mmhubru?t ;dueltbn. fly': may bring along a at any momen to mhn& the sale of toy soldiers. R Finds Woman Pretty Under Any Circumstance. LE MATIN, Paris.—A woman read asks us a question rather indiscreet. “Whieh do you prefer, messieurs, a pretty or a‘stylish woman?” It ‘we did not have" the fear of ap- pearing too greedy we would say that we preferred, in 5o far as our own predi- lections are concerned, ladies both styl- ish and pretty. gift, while the quality of elegance de- pends quite largely upon external con- ditions. To be “chic” one must have taste, ease of manner, and, especially, money—money hard, heavy and re- sounding. However, there are some midinettes (shop-girls) who with two louis (£10) worth of chiffons look cone furbelows that cost 500 times as much. So, after all, perhaps, we had better say in answer to this difficult question that a man who really is fond of & finds her pretty under any cir- 3 &:fl smart and stylish be- woman cination of the sea. Bhe is of twentieth century. free, and is able meld her life as she setting | From the Sioux Falls Argus-Leader. the very heavy responsibility when they re- | In of the novel is an En r‘m s The i " . . . lish harbor vil- | L fmmense majority. Free discus-|of the renters, it appears, and signa- i Uncle Eben, “if you's tryin' sumpin’ 24 th oo couraged. records have been pro- dat’s worth while. It ainsno value &t ente Omeces o the mard e & ir cargoes and | eyst te that they were all foh a bad banjo playery™ heavy they order