Evening Star Newspaper, November 28, 1931, Page 6

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It Has been-made to cover a multitude of oftenses against the public order, for dasemblies held under its protection Have not always been orderly in act or in'words. Avowed enemies of the state Have used it 4s & cloak for their sedi- thus_enterprises. Fomenters of dis- order have cited it as warrant for their "esferday a group of people appeared at’the gates of the White House with & petition to the President. They were the advance guard, as it were, of & larger number who are to march or risticism and botling racial “passions which the Indian Nationalist movement has generated. A British spokesman who was in Washington this month voiced the view that the independence cause is “more adrertised”—especially in the United Statés, he claméd—“than existent if fact” The world-wide propaganda weged for it by Gandhi's supporters, this Briton contends, is wnolly out of proportion to the actusl dimensions of thé movement do not seem to dovetail with the ace knowledgsd anxiety of the British im- perial authorities to come to terms with the Naticnalists, it is obvious that the independence drive has manifestly not yet assumed dimensions that promise | any successful outcome of it within | the visible future. John Bull's stender army of soldiers nd civilian aéministrators have held teeming India now for the betier part of a century. They do not lack powerful ! native supports. The indfan Moslems do not look with sympathetic eye upon the aspirations of the Hindu Gandhites | to estab’ish themselves as rulers of the rezlm. Ncr are the: potent Indian princes, coddled and subsidized by the British cro®n, at al] engemored of the idea of surrendering their power and pelf, as they would have to do if Na- tionalist India were ever to suppiant the British India that is. Gandhi will not renew his vendetta against Britain with any glittering pros- pects of early triumph. He has a long | and perhaps a bloody row. to hoe. S The Disarmament Riot. Paris is not a fertile spot for dis- armament talk, if the riot which oc- | curred last night at the International | Disarmament Conference in the Tro- cadero is & criteron. When an at- tempt- was made to translate a speech made over the radio to the meeting by Senator Willlam E. Borah, boos interrupted and prevented. But Mr. Borah was not the only speaker treated with discourtesy. Former Premier Edouard Herriot, chairman of the con- ference, was howled down; Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, British statesman; Alanson B. Houghton, former Amer- ican Ambassador to Great Britain and to Germany, and Joseph Joos, member of - the German Reichstag, met. the samie fate when they undertook to address the unruly audience. The seene in the Trocadero was vastly dif- otherwise travel $o Washington & feW | foreny from the pacific remarks made days hence to demand some sort of Te- | py piamier Lavsl and other distin- Mef from Congress for their pregent destitution. This group yesterday sought to secure from the President assurance | o (ye devotion of France to peace of provision of food and lodging for the | ryere is apparently little desiré for marchers who will come later. TReY | gicarmament on the part of a vocifer- were prevented from entering the Exec- utive Offices and when they and their | 100 of the populstion the French ecompanions behaved in & dWORderty | capitar. " b mannet some of them were drrested. “The apirit must prevall over the This was not & “peacesble assembly” | irute fdrces of the world,” former nmm;amnm—mmnmhrwmm“ of the constitutional guarantee. Nor |yqiq to his audience, only to meet shouts wili-be.the mareh and gathering of the e 6, 1f'that demon- O | the Prench sudience, however, approved | of “nomsense” from large groups of young men in the chamber. Not all the. tactics of thése objectors to dis- t. Indeed, so forcibly did the peace advocates act that the hall was the scene of many and widely fist fights, all of which added to the riot of sound which was broad- the cast- to ‘world over the microphone. Premier Paul Painleve yas the ‘few speakers who was by the crowd. He took the traditional Premch attitude that France could not disarm until it had assurance ‘security”’; tresties of alliance with nations sufficiently strong when t to repel the at- enemy upon that country. there ‘is the situation, as it exists today and is likely to exist up including the conférence on dis- of as armament in Geneva next February. tion. Had Prance not been a victor in the "Mhe whole scheme i the work of |8nd compelled in the end to pay those who are alert to make trouble for | indemnities or “reparations” to the tune the Government of the United States, |that Germany has been compelled to who seek its subversion, who aim at the | PAY, perhaps a different attitude might “gevolution” based upon the principles|bé discernible in that country today. of Communism. Thosé of the leaders | Germany, the victor over Prance in the and agitators who' are aliens—and | war of 1870, had & rush of military many of them are—should be rated as| “gloire” to the head after that per- undesirable and returned to the lands |formance. Those who are Amer-|of the blessings of disarmament in the of their origin. Efforts to convince Germany ican citizens and are thus enrolled in |days between 1870 and 1914 met with the organization that has for its pri- | no more success than such efforts have thary object the disruption of this|met in Prance since 1918. @oyernment should be held for the| France may be devoted to peace, as trestment of the laws which forbid|her statesmen have said, but the riot disorder inimical to the welfare and |of last night, at a conference dedicated the security of the state. —— e sstee. “One hundred and Sixty-two Shet; 850 Bitten,” ran a recent headline. Adirondacks? No, Manchuria! ————ta— Gandhi Throws Up the Sponge. Finally convinced that the British Round Table Conference is “a lifeless corpse,” Mr. Gandhi is packing up his shawls, his loin cloths and his spinning wheels and preparing to leave London for'India. The ascendancy of the Con- servative party in Great Britain, as the result of the October eélections, has persuaded the Mahatma that Indian Nationalist hopes are further from to the cause of arms limitation and permanent peace, is not likely to make a good impression on the rest of the world. — In some ways the municipal gover- ernment of Chicago is getting a break these days of cepression. Announce- ment is made that after December 1 her pay roll will again be “exhausted.” If times were brisker her thousands of employes might get exhausted, too, and find better jobs. As it is, they do their duty, accept script and promises and live on hope. +—os It is the conservatively gathered Tealization than ever, and that any! estates that, following death of the present attempt to promote them in Qreat Britain would be love's labor lost. 80 he is going home. In announeing his return trip, Gandhi breathes defiance. He purposes resum- ing the civil disobedience campaign, despite his confidence that the British government will meet it with “a reign of ‘terror.” Anticipating a period of ““terrible repression” as a result of the owners, receive the conservatively high estimates. ) Death at the Crossing. A motor car was hit by a Chesapeake Beach Railway train the other evening, just at sunset, and*the two occupants were instantly killed, the train being derailed, with fortunately no injuries Rcund Table's failure to grant “full, |!0 the crew or passengers. The acci- responsible self-government to India,” | dent occurred in sufficient light to have #he Nationalist leader says: wThe | Permitted a clear view of the crossing prospect does not sadden us. We teach | 21d the approaching train by the driver our children to dance with joy when 2! the car. No explanation is forthcom- bullets fiy around them. We teach them | IN& Perhaps none is possible, of the t6. suffer patiently for freedom. Mdixeuon why the driver, with the train now 1 go back to Indis and invite the to a new course of suffering. ‘The desire of millions 6f Indians for ifgependence cannot be killed.” ‘@Gandhi, no doubt, is right. The for lberauion from the British e will go on. It has not subsided the Round Table Conference was jpering to its futile finish. Only this Week it was siated in the House of that m some Bsngal districts British officer is doing his duty|mate that of the lozomotive. ‘The | not reckon upon the chance of their deadly terror of his life” in plain view, proceeded to the crossing and tried to pass in front of the engine. As long as railroad tracks are crossed at grade by highways there will be fatalities. For just s6 long will drivers seek to beat the trains. The impulse to get over the line first is strong in a great many motorists. They wiil take chances that experience has shown to be deadly dangerous. They either over- estimate their own speed or underesti- ‘They do of bomb throwers recently be-|engine stalling as the motor is forced me 5o great that Viceroy Lord Wil-)over the line, which usually lies at a now travels in alrplanes in-:slightly higher grade than the road. of by tram. ‘This sort of thtnz,' Or they fail to take into account their te Gandhi’s embargo on violence, own dicposition to do the wrong thing L3 table in the atmosphere of fa- in a crisis 1 by some impulsive move- While these asserticns THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, ment choke their engine at the llttl' The slight delay entailed in giving the railroad frain the right of way. at the crossing—a right which it muast be granted—is of the least possfble im- portance. Perhaps a minute is required to bring the motor car to a fall stop and t4 start it agatn after the train has pessed. The man who fafled to sacrifice that minute the other evening lost his life and that of his companion, and caused deep mourning on the part of their families. It is & sad and heavy | penaity to pay for a momentary thrill | of competition. Pl A S . Door-Bell Ringers. These are the days of door-bell ring- | ers. Unlike Halloween, the call to the | entrance means something. Then a summons to the door was impelled by a mischievous prank and a sales-resisting talk was unnecessary. But now at this season of the year, and this year particularly, the cail to the door his a purpose back of it. The housewife must go, even if she has & maid in the house. The caller does not want to ee anybody but the mis- tress of the house, Often these visits are legitimate. A ! salesman is calling. It is the only way | he has of plying his honest trade. The only means he has of making a liveli- hood. Perhaps it is an unfortunate looking for work, money or a meal. No one with a heart would deprive those in either class the right for an appeal. One does not have to acquiesce to their demands, but a firm answer, nct a gruff one, should be given. However, there is another class of callers, who at this time can well be dispensed with. They have no appeal. Their call is a nuisance. This class consists of small boys making their way from house to house asking that the occupant take a subscription to a magazine. In the majority of cases these boys are sons of well-to-do fam- ilies, who allow their children to make these canvasses for an addition to their spending money. The children do not need it, and older folks do. It would eppear that it would be much better for families to keep their young offspring off the streets and let those actually in need take their places. Housewives are willing to help those in need, but dislike to be annoyed by con- stant appearances at the door for those who are undeserving. ——————— A coupls of centuries ago the terri- tory of the Chesapeake was visited by the notorious “Blackbirder,” with his | human cargo out of Afriea. Honest men dealt with him, but despised him How much better he was than his mod- ern prototype, who infests the same regions and who deals in white femininity. e An ingenious Nebraska gunner is go- ing to have phonograph records made of ducks quacking and take them out with him in the blind to use as decoys The idea might be carried further by utilizing the love song of Mrs. Moose and thus saving all that birchbark horn and guide's larynx stuff. —t— When Gov. Pinchot and Senator Davis really get going they suggest two small boasting boys dealing in_“mil- lions," billions, quillions and skijlions.” ———— Buying one's hundred or more Christ- mas ‘seals is only half the stunt To place ‘one on every piece of qutgoing mail is just as important. +on—s. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The L Laugh. Old man Stubbles has a face That seems always out o' place, ‘When he hears a merry quip, Never winks or moves a lip Toward a smile. He'll sit an' stare With a stern, forbidding air Till he's all alone, an' then Laugh again an’ yet again. When a hard-luck tale drew nigh He was never known to sigh Sympathetic-like an’ nice, With a chunk of good advice. But when he's alone he'll take Pen in hand fur old time's sake An’ write out a check or two, Helpin' some poor feller through. Those who meet him stand aside ‘Talkin' 'bout his sordid pride An’ his domineerin’ way. “Cold an' cranky,” they all say, 'Cause his good deeds rest unknown, An’ that's why, when he's alone, He is laughing at the jokes That he plays on all us folks. Accuracy. “I suppose you are willing to put your shoulder to the wheel in my next cam- paign?” “I wish you wouldn't indulge in these vague figures of speech,” rejoined Sena- tor Sorghum. “You d¢on't mean ‘Put my shoulder to the wheel’ You mean ‘Put my hand in my pocket. Jud Tunkins says the tired business man is never so tired that he goes to sleep during a musical show. History's Repetition. ‘There’s nothing new! But why feel blue And rail in prose or rhyme? ‘The old-time stuft Is great enough To hear a second time. | Friend Horse. “Charley, dear!” exclaimed young Mrs. Torkins, “why do people say a horse is man's best friend?” “Because he is gentle and appre- clative.” “I don't think that's it at all. It's |due to the fact that a friend has a way of indueing you to take a chance !on him that causes you to lose money.” Heattless Prophetess. “Harold says that efter we are mar- ried he will want me to dress like a queen.” “Yes,” replied Miss Cayenne, “and for & while he will be as proud as a king. After that he will grumble like a tax- Relief. All hail the frosty season That brings such varied glee! When men may say with reason, “There are no flies on me!” “Some folks,” said Uncle Eben, “prides darse’f on bein’ foresighted so much dat dey ain' got no respeck foh duties dat comes any near-der dan day after tomorres.” P L | them mean scm-thing which they never .| crease their own popularity or increase | D. SATURDAY. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. One need no longer fear the lem‘v man, as did great Caesar. He who must be feared today is the fellow with whom one cannot be honest. | The older some of us grow, the more | sute we become, that Nonesty, in all its branches, is the be-all and end-all of life. | Honesty comprises all of morality, all | of decency, all. of truth. | Love itself is based on honesty, and | watered with the same divine dew. | S How unseemly is it, then, for one who strives toward this ideal perfec- tion to find himseli thrown with those to whem honesty is an unknown quantity! He cannot say & word or express an inion, even on the most trivial sub- J without having his word or his | words twisted into something which he did_not say. Conversation, for such persons, is not the joy of exchanging opinions, but rather an opportunity to stalk one's friends as the hunter does the beasts of the jungle The man not used to honesty of ex- | pression - himself finds it, in others, simply a means of getting things “cn them,” 2s the expression has it. Honesty Is deep and presupposcs that | one' has something more than the average intelligence. Statements, with the honest man, are meant for what they are meant. The hypocrite—it is an old and an ugly word, but no other quite takes its place—the hyprocrite, let us say again, is always looking for a hidden mean- ing. He twists and distorts plain state- ments of fast until he is ab'e to make | » meant at all in the original. H> can take a perfectly innocent sen- tence, which says something openly and | directly, without equivocation, as all good sentences should, and inside ‘of twn seconds, at th- outside, he can distort it until its own maker does not recognize it. 'R ‘What shall be done with this fellow? What can be done with him, except to leave him alone. ‘This does not mean, necessarily, that one should run away, but merely that one should think twice before making any remark to him. Thinking twice is not easy work, of course. Most of us have enough trouble think- ing once, and even then it is more often half-thought than whole thought. Perhaps it would be easier to run, after all! But _this flight is not physical. It should be mecntal. In other words, one should catalogue in one's private mind (not one's public mind) these men—and women, if any— who cannot accept a statement from another at its face value, Put them on a personal black list. Color it any tint one chooses, if black | is not -sktisfactory. Maybe a red list would be better, for thore is danger in | these people. & % This elementary caution will save the | honest man, who values his honesty as | a pear] of great price, from the dis- agreeable spectacle of Seeing his jewel | trampled in the mud. He should know that, even as the | initiates of the old religions of Greece | 2nd Egypt had one great secret, known only to themselves, so men who believe | in the truth of honesty, the divine! 'knew that not all men were ab | whinings, as others might call them. TRACEWELL. necessity for honesty, have a secret of | their own, 1t is this: ‘That the secret sign of the initiate is his willingness to accept an honest re- mark, henestly made, whether one agrees with it or not, at its face value, without finding it necessary to make any inimieal or joking comment about it. e er I inner secret of the honesty seek- s is this: That all men are not fitted for honesty. The devotees of the older religions bear the great secret of the mysteries, which was that nobody knew. It was a tough truth, as they saw it, | and had better be kept for those who had endured, and therefore could stand the ultimate sorrow. # uw The modern cult of utter honesty does not go 8o far along the path of | poel the divine hopes of Christianity, which shed a radiance in the darkest night, in the sorriest lives, the seeker after honesty knows but one rule, that of good taste. Let no one shrink back here, afraid that a certain juvenile, amateurish quality creeps into the discussions of those traveling the honesty trail. Good taste has its place in the world, and it may be encompassed by the serfous-minded without descent to banality. Good taste means a sense of propor- tion. It means that one has accepted the dictates of the mind as well as of the body, of the spirit of man, which enshrines his immortal longings, as well as of the earth, which holds him for the moment. * ok ok ¥ Be honest, then, only with the chosen few. Let them bear the brunt of one's Honesty of expression i8 a search for the ultimate. No one ever finds the ultimate, in the very nature of things. The search itself is the real d. “It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive,” sald a wise man, in another conneetion. The thought applies, however, to the search for the ultimate by means of honest, thought, honestly expressed. The whole world of thought is the field for this happy use of intelli~ gence, Until one has tried it, he may not realize how few times he is given to putting his honest thoughts into as honest_ words as he can find. Once started, he will reveal himself to himself as no other human being can. This is about as near to seeing one's self as others see one as it is given to mortals here below to look into the mirrors of divinity. A human being stands on the very tip-top, misty with the unknown, when he tries, even though he be seated on nothing more mighty than a chair in a basement restaurant, to probe into the heart of life and drag out there- from a few bits of authentic fact. Facts, let it be said, are not neces- sarily facts. Sometimes they are opin- fons. Often opinions are facts which no one recognized as such. No one, that is, except a few choice souls, rare honest men, who, because they really tried, were on the trail of reality, even though they knew it not. To them was the reward of having seen first a glorious dawn. Taxation Puzzle Promises To Be Outstanding Issue While Congress s expected to solve the Pederal deficit problem. and the | preliminary debates give promise of a | spirited discussion, both political parties in the closely divided houses are ex- hibiting a desire to avoid responsibility for measures which are likely to- de- that of their opponents. The editorial comment of the country is as divided | as the legisiators themseives, the points | of dispute being whether the new taxa- | tion, generally held to be necessary, | shall take the form of increased in- come taxes; if so, whether it shall be applied to the higher incomes or to all grades of incomes, or whether a sales- tax on luxuries and semi-luxuries might not prove fairer to everybody. Some | hold that long-term borrowing with | accompanying governmental economies, | would make increased taxation unneces- sary. A disposition on the part of lead- ers of the various factions to approach the subject as of national scope and | eliminate politics is suggested as a highly desirable basis for legislation Recognizing that “no matter what the ultimate_outcome of the deliberations is, it will be unpopuar,” the Columbus | Ohio State Journal sees “both Repub- Iican and Democratic leaders planning their strategy and seeking to shift the blame onto the shoulders of their op- ponents.” How r, for Congress “to attempt to play either for private ad- vantage or to public prejudice would b‘e' poor statesmanship and poorer politics, in the opinion of the Miami Daily | News, which advises that that body | | | | “should be expected to face its fiscal problem in 8 spirit of broad states- manship.” The Cleveland Press holds that “Democrats who want their party | to mean something and to lead wiil| forego questionable advantages that might be gained by playing politics with taxes, and will set about prepn‘r.ing an intelligent and liberal program.’ * ok ox The Yakima Daily Republic offers the judgment: “Few if any Conflress-‘ men’ have the courage to tell the ma- ] jority of their constituents that they | must bear their share of the burdens of | government; politicians fear that any such frank statement would defeat them for re-election, and they may be right because the people have been spoiled 80 long by being relieved—or seemingly relieved—of the duty of paying for their government that they might resent another and more candid policy. Noth- ing is more conducive to good govern- ment than a knowledge on the part of the people that they, themselves, are paying the bill.” ointing out that “all the people, in the long run, must bear the cost of zovernment,” the Cincinnati Times-Star holds that “they will have to show the lawmakers that they are interested in public finance, if they are to have any fort of protection from the tax spenders.” p""?nng-term borrowing, plus drastic economies, not incompatible with the maintenance of essential public serv- ices,” contends the Chicago Daily News, | “would meet the requirements of the | present_and prospective Federal situa- | tion. But the adoption of a formula barring new taxes, or the restoration of old taves, presupposes courageous statesmanship. Too many members of Congress prefer the easier but dema- to c plan of ‘taxing the rich’ by up- m rgvulon of income and \nherfunu taxes, and the whole insurgent group, which may hold the balance of power in the Senate, ic committed to a pro- m of frank class legislation. In- xible opposition to such a program is expected by few experienced observ- ers. Still, it would be gratifying were moderate Republicans and level-headed Democrats to unite in support of & revenue program emphasizing public economy.” Quoting Senator Emoot, chairman of the Finance Committee, as believing that the President should “lay the needs of the country before Congress, but recommend no specific plan,” the Salt Lake Deseret News argues: “If the Chief Executive reports the con- dition and needs of the country with- out a specific plan, Congress will, it would appear, be more likely to com- | restored. promise for the best interests of the country.” The Charleston (W. Va.) Deily Mail thinks, however, that “it| remains to be seen wiether such a pro- gram as the administration will offer will meet with the acce) of Con« gress, or whether the se of Rep- resentatives will offer one of its own in opposition to any plan which may be proposed by the administration and ;hua a campaign issue be joined right ere.” * ko k As to definite proposals for taxation to meet the need for increased revenue, the South Bend Tribune comments: “Some legislators favor widely diffused increases. Indeed, a Federal sales tax on necessities has been proposed, but that seems to be out of the question. Other legislators would make & small minority among the taxpayers carry all the load. It is a foregone conclusion that some taxes abandoned in the period of national prosperity will be The Houston Chronicle con- cludes: “Apparently the best program for Congress is to increase slightly the income rates in the higher brackets (certainly from a political viewpoint this must be done) and to levy a sales tax on articles in the luxury and semi- luxury class. process will not be without its painfulness. At that, how- ever, the experience may serve us in future days by teaching us to keep Federal expenditures within the bounds of prospective revenue and to provide a more stable basis for national reve- mg'e5 than the income tax system per- Indorsement of the sales tax as “fair and impartial” is voiced by the Akron Beacon-Journal, while the Worcester Evening Gazette declares: “To under-~ stand how really light would be the burden of a general sales tax, one has only to consider the enormous volume of the Nation's retail business.” The Philadelphia Inquirer believes that, “if properly drawn and enacted, a sales tax would burden no one” and that, “what is more, it would be productive, which cannot be said of a raid on in- comes.” Among the proponents of the plan to increase the rate for the higher in- comes is the Wheeling Intelligencer, which argues that “unless the great bulk of the new revenue comes from large income and inheritance taxation and a minimum from small incomes and sales taxes, the burden will not be distributed fairly.” The Pasadena Star-News pleads that “the small in- 52:’:” should not have increased bur- On the other hand, the Schenectady Gazette holds that “a mistake was made several years ago in eliminating o fl\'e led to the murder. Cavender him. a great number of income taxpayers by raising the exemption.” The New York Times states: “It is evident that higher surtaxes can be made to yield only a limited amount of revenue. Other possibilities must be explored. It will be wise to consider carefully the arguments for and against Senator Smoot's proposal for a selective sales tax, as well as those bearing on Sena- tor Bingham's plan for a 2-cent stamp tax on bank checks, Senator Reed's suggestion for an increase in inheritance taxes and all other proposals that may be made. To raise at once by taxa- tion the full amount of $2,000,000,000 required to balance the budget is im- };aslble and fl'obnbly undesirable. The portant point is for the Government to reduce the deficit substantially and | apportion the burden of increased taxation as fairly as possible and with :11::5 least harm to the recovery of busi- Quoting Senator Joseph T. Robinson as stating that “putting the income surtaxes too high may discourage the investment in productive enterprises,” the Pittsburgh ~Post-Gasette advises Obviously, ~considerable additional money will have to be found to meet the deficit and constructive should be welcomed from all sides. +—oe—s. Not a Leader. From the Manchester Union. Einstein now admits that the fifth dimension is pure fiction, But it never will be a best seller, ) *House Work. ng hs: Buffalo Evening News. ling isn't mecessary to success. You can quit early, as Edison did, and study at home for 68 years, . NOVEMBER 28, 1931. THE LIBRARY TABLE " By the Booklover The reéent poems of Edwin Arlington Rebinson have been called narrative pogms, bul only to the searcher does the narrative emerge, and even then it seems of slight importance in compari- son with the d of character which are revealed the symbolism, which seems the chief cencern of the poet. In “Cavender’s House,” a man who has murdered his wife returns to the gloemy heuse whith was the scene of the murder and there imagines that his wife returns also and that together they go over the dissatisfactions and evances of their life together, which self really carries on a dramatic di logue, in which he speaks both for him- self and his wife, for he knows her point of view, but because he is both plaintiff and defendant, the question which has tormented him, whether or not his wife was unfaithful to him, is never answered. In_ Mr. Robinson’s m of last year, “The Glory of the Nightingales,” two men are bitter en- emies because both have loved the same woman and she has married the better man, whom she loved. But Nightingale, in bitterness and hatred, wrecks the lives of his former friend and his wife. After the wife is dead the husband goes to the isolated house of Nightingale by the sea to kill the man who has ruined him But he finds that man a helpless invalid, at the last stage of his life, and the two have one of those dramatic dialogues in which the greatest subtlety of Robinson has play. When the in- jured friend, a doctor, leaves Nightin- gale, expecting to return, Nightingale shoots himself. It is found that in ex- plation he has left all his property to the doctor for research in the interest of humanity. ek v o The recent poem of Edwin Arlington ! Robinson, “Matthias at the Door,” is perheps even more symbolical than the two already mentioned. It is a narra- tive poem only in the sense that there are character and a thread of story;/ the story is not the main interest. The character emerge through long monologues and dialogues. There are four: Matthias, & complete egotist, a spiritual brother of Cavender and Nightingale; Natalie, his wife; Tim- berlake, friend of Matthias, and Garth, who appears only as a ghost, but has been a fri of Matthias. Years be- fore Mat! has saved Timberlake from burn to death, and for this reason Timberlake has permitted Mat- thias to marry Natalie, whom he himself loved and who loved him. When the poem opens Matthias and Nathalie are At home and Matthias sits looking over his lands, especially down below him into a “wood-shadowed d forsaken gorge,” where there is a cave with an cpening like & door. In this cave Garth has committed suicide. To Matthias in his reveries Garth as a £pirit returns to play the part of men- tor to the egotist, really his conscience. Matthias has been reflecting on h's own success and the faultlessness of his 50 years; Garth implants in his mind doubts about the perfection of that success. As the spirit of Garth dis- 2ppears, Timberlake in the flesh arrives, in the fle 1 but obviously i1l and nearing ceath. ' imberlake and Nathalie meet in the g.rge and admit to each other their love. Matthias spies upon them | and nurses his jnlo‘u{h Nathalie dis- ' covers that Matthias knows, and goes | to the cave and kills herself. Then Timberlake dies at the house of Mat- | thias. Matthias, crazed by the collapse of all his success and self-satisfaction, | goes to the door of the cave with intent | to follow the example of Garth and Nathalie and kill himself there. Buf he is met by Garth, who tells him that he | is not wanted in the realm of the dead, that before he can die he must be, born again. Matthias turns back, hum- | bled, to search for a real birth of per- sonality through the shedding of his egotism. ‘The door of the cave, which is the door to death, should not be opened, | says Garfth, to those who have not pre- pared themselves for spiritual life. | Worldly success only too often means | spiritual degeneration, such as Mat- thias has undergine. So Garth says to Matthias: | “Not yet, Matthias. No matter what you do, You are not coming. A way was found for me To meet you here and say you are not coming. You cannot die, Matthias, till you are born. You are dowr; here too soon, and must g back. Don't be annoyed, or be disquieted, Or more than necessarily surprised At any change. You will still be your- When you are born. There is ne cure for self.” The Jast lines of the poem show the purpose of Matthias: “Groping away, with his hands out be- fore him, And his feet ‘going cautiously, Mat- jas. thias. Moved as a blind man moves, with memory Guiding him as it might, until he found An unseen place to rest. The night was_cold, And in the darkness was a feel of death, But in Matthias was a warmth of life, Or birth, defending and sustaining him | With patience, and with an expsctancy That he had said would never in life There were long And dark hours; and he met their length and darkness With a vast gratitude that humbled And warmed him while he waited for the dawn.” g L 7 Alan Patrick Herbert, author of last year's cuccessful novel, “The Water Gipsies,” has tried many vocations. He served with the Royal Naval Division in the Hawke Battalion from 1914 to 1917 and took part in the Gallipoli campaign. In 1918 he was admitted to the bar. He has been private secretary to Sir Leslie Scott, King's Counsel and mem- ber of Parliament. He has been a member of the staff of Punch and represented that magazine at the Third Imperial Press Conference at Melbourne, Australia. And, of most importance, he has written many essays, plays and novels. His greatest propaganda interest is to secure the freedom of the Thames for pleasure boats. He writes frequent letters to the London Times on the subject. Usage assigns the lower reaches | talk?—M, ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Take advantage of this free service.! 1t 'you are one of the thousands who | have patronized the bureau, write us sgain. If you have never used the service, begin now. It is maintained for your benefit. Be sure to send your | name and address with your question and inclose 2 cents in coin or stamps for return postage. Address The Eve- n!nfi Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washington, D. C. Q. Has the Government any actual gmiun pictures of the World wm—{ A. The Signal Corps of the War De- | partmtent has about 600,000 feet of film | | taken during the war. Q. Please print the prayer by Plato| used in the funeral services of Sennwr‘ Morrow.—B. N. B. | A. “Beloved Pan, and all ye othor‘ gods Wwho haunt this place, give me| beauty in the inward soul, and may the outward and the inward man be at one. May T reckon the wise to be wealthy, and may I have such a quan- tity of gold as a temperate man snd he only can bear and carry. Any- thing more? The prayer, I think, is| enough for me.” Q. How crm does Floyd Gibbons A. He has been clocked when talk- ing at a speed of 217 words a minute. Q. Can sweepstake tickets be sent through our mails?—T. L. A. It is illegal to use the United States mails for the distribution of sweepstake tickets. Q. Which is correct—this data is or these date are?—J. S. A. Data is the plural of the Latin datum, therefore it is correct to say these data are. Q. I heard Dr. Roy Chapman An-/ | draws speaking of fossil remains found | in the Gobi Desert. He spoke of the fact that the animals existed millions of years ago. How is it possible to know when these animals lived?— D. B A. Paleontology is a science which treats of the life of the geologic past. ‘The records are read from the rocks themselves, mm“gh omm of proce(.a' now gol on are able fo approximate how long ago the strata of rocks were f in which the fossils are found. Q. Who is the most prolific writer of juvenile fiction?—A. L. Probably Edward Stratemeyer who died May 12, 1930, in Newark, N. J., could have claimed this distinc- tion. During the 49-odd years of his writing life he produced more than 600 juvenile books, among which are the Old Glory books, Soldiers of Fortune | series, the Putnam Hall serjes and the Frontier Boys. , Writing under a va- Tiety of pen names and With numer- ous secretaries, this author brought out, in addition to the above men- tioned, boys' lives of many great men. Q. To what country do the Gala- ! pagos islands belong?—D. B. A. To the Republic of Ecuador. Officially these form the Colon Archi- pelago. There are 15 larger and about 40 smaller islands They lie about 580 miles west of the coast of South America, and have a total land area of about 2,870 square miles. The largest island is Isabella, covering approxi- mately 1,650 square miles. Q. What is the insignia of the Quar- termaster Corps of the Army and what does it mean?—R. L. A. The insignia is a sword and key crossed on a whesl surmounted by & spread eagle. The significance of the RISH INDEPENDENT, Dublin. ‘The claim of a gentleman res in Dun Laoghaire to the estate o the English knight who died in 1418 in_the London Gazette: Lieut. Col. Hineas Barrett Villlers- Tuthill, the Slopese, Dun Laoghaire, who inserted the notice, told the Irish Independent _representatives that it was_published in response to an ad- vertisement in the ~Times, London, which sought the heir male of Sir Thomas Brooke (an English nobleman of Somerset, who died about 1418) at the date of the death of Francis Cap- disclosed in a notice published | these: per Brooke, Ufford place, Suffolk, on | tes January 13, 1886. Lieut. Col. Villiers-Tuthill claimed of the Thames to the transportation of timber and coal. To make his protests dramatic he bought an old barge, built a house on it, christened it the Ark, dressed himself in red trousers and a blue jacket, and invaded the forbidden commercial territory of the Thames as far as the Pool of London. Then he closed his London house and lived for 14 months on his barge, cruising up and down the river. Meanwhile he was writing “The Water Gipsies,” so we know that the material in that novel is first hand and authentic. * k% ok Richard Aldin , whose novel “The Colonel's Daughter,” not a war story, is considered by many to be better than his earlier “Death of a Hero,” which was bought by an American publisher when he had seen only the first 30,000 words, began his literary work as a poet. He appeared in Amy Lowell's issues of “Some Imagist Poets.” World War rudely interru, d became a In 1918 he) as and critic and Pritish infantry soldier. was demobilized, an officer, poor, de- pressed, with shattered nerves, and re- turned to England to find work. After a few months as a literary critic on the London Times Literary Supplement, he was obliged to go into the country tolin live in order to recover his health. Living in a workman's cottage, which he filled with books, he wrote several volumes of verse. Since then he has written the two novels mentioned and a volume of stories, “Roads Glory.” to action. The disease is to be the issue male of the heir male of Sir Thomas Brooke, and that he was entitled to the property disposed of by the will of Francis Capper Brooke, dated Oetober 28, 1385. This Mr. Brooke, he said, was the lineal descendant of Sr Thomas Brooke, and inherited his estate, which was a landed one. Mr. Brooke had three children—two sons and a daughter. One of the sons and the daughter died without issue, and the elder son, Col. Brooke, was alive in London. * x % % Red Doctrines Stir Up Antagonism. Neues Wiener Tagblatt, Vienna. — Communist doctrines are now being spread throughout the Tyrol with per- ceptible intensity. Agitators are ex- horting the ntry and making them mtxxr ic to the established law and ol ", particularly with respect to the instigation of a tax strike. This radical suggestion has no doubt struck a responsive chord in the bosoms: of many of the Tyrolese, even the Heimat« wehr (Home Guard) itself not being proof, in all its personnel, to such se- ductive proposals. Loyal elements, however, vet predominate, though s demonstration of the Communists is being_arranged in the form of a gen- eral Communistic parade to Innsbruck in the near future. * % % Thinks Teachers’ Salary Cut Inadequate. Evening Times, Glasgow.—Letter to the editor: Sir: Regarding these outbursts from the E. I. §. sbout the decrease in Glasgow's teachers' salaries, I for one (along with thousands more). think the Glasgow authorities are quite in order in making the decrease. fact, I think it is not enough. Those people are a pampered class, with their five days a week of seven hours per day and three months’ holiday every year. Allow me to compare tnose people with a body of men who are going through great hardship just now and have been doing so for a long period: i. e, ships’ officers. Hundreds of them are out of work and have to exist the best way they can. But they never complain; they are suffering silently. Of course, all seafarers have been badly hit, but officers with families worst of all. When sailors are on duty it is not five days per week and a safe job, but it is seven days' continuous duty. Something should be done for those sufferers. I am, ete. MANANA. * k¥ & Optimism Only ‘Weapon Agamnst Pessimism. Le Matin, Paris. of devouring microbe which preys upon everything at once. It i an atom which produces immediate ravages and places its victims beyond recovery. The essimist is always saying something ike this: “Things are certainly bad; it's going to be bankruptey; the Sino- Japanese war is going to embroil us all some more international complica- zemarkable | Dut insignia is as follows: The wheel rep- and "m: kcep:% fwerd usy‘ supply } sword, militasy. supplies; the eagle, the national emblem. Q. How mai bulldings were de- stroyed in the CnglClln fire>—C. C. A. During this fire 17,450 buildings were destroyed, causing 200 deaths and rendering more then 70,000 homeless. Property to the value of $190,000,000 was destroyed. Q. What is a red-letter day?—B. F. A. Formerly red-letter days were those so indicated in the calendar of days in’the Book of Common Prayer, and some prayer books are still printed in this style. In general usage the term has come to mean. especially for- tunate or auspicious days in a person's. life, or days to be remembered because of some important event or benefit. Q. How old is Walter Winchell, the columnist?—N. H. 3 A. Walter Winchell was born April 11, 1897, in New York City. QU 0 invented the electric meter? —M. L. 8. A. They were devised early in the development of electricity by numerous inventots and ‘are of {hree different kinds. The earliest type of ampere- hour meter wa$ the Edison zinc- sulphate electrolytic' mieter, but the trouble .of reading it caused it soon to be replaced by mechanical meters. A large number of such have been in- vented, as those by Ferranti, Elihu’ Thomson, S. Evershed, Chamberlain, Hookham and others. Q. When were working girls’ -clubs first established?—E. R. L. A. In London, the Soho Club and House of 1880, the Club and Working. Girls’ House, and the St. Giles Evening Club for Workln¥ Girls were among the' earliest. In tbe United States the movement, began in 1883 with the In- dustrial Society of Hoboken and the ‘Working Girls’ Society. of Thirty-eighth’ Street in New York. The movement has now. apread over the entire country.. . How does $20 gold piece com- pt?e S m‘g, dollar in size?—D. 8. A. The $20 gold piece weighs 516’ grains, It is 1.35 inches in diameter. The .silver dollar wel 41250 grains and is 1% inches in 3 3 tates contributed the most toathyh Red“ 'Gfl drought relief funds last year? In what States were the it sums nt?—T. D. l"KuNN Yo:rled 'lthl a contribution f 2.'&,71&17: Pennsy! ‘was sec- an‘ $1,014,327.48, and Illinois was | third with $888,963.04. ght relief !in Arkansas took the largest sum, $3.- 140,946.561; Kentucky was second with $1,490,358.72, and Oklahoma was third with $1,385,679.50. Q. How much land did the Govern- men: acquire in the City of Wu.mn‘- ton when it was first laid out?>—S. W. A. The Government acquired & tract of 600 l;ru bu‘?ldm l]:e;rt of the city and 10,136 ots were appors tioned to it llnfle:nt%e 50-50 agreement with the land owners. Q. What was highest price quoted for United States Steel common stock. in 1929?—H. D. A. Steel common's high in 1929 was 2613, Q. In five-card cribbage, two-handed, dgesn't the player who loses the cut for the get. something to offset the of the deal?>—F. D. S. non-dealer on the first thr:’l'la bat it is optimfism. | We have diagnosed the trouble; behold now the remedy. ‘Take a lmf‘ee :;)‘gmm n:‘lg imtghu peop] coul sucl mota:‘ are going bad? Well, they'll go better. Sound and heal countries never 1 con! grene. The Chinese ani panese come to terms. International compli- cations will disappear..; This is but the return to a nofmal state after many years of inflation and overoro- duction. We are enduring our heavy— but well justified—penance with & smile. A little dry bread from time to time makes our usual meals taste bet- o Try this treatment yourself, and get 1id of your sulkiness. It is just as easy to hope that tomorrow will be better than than that it won't, for one guess is as'good as another. Why, thfl‘l always be so sure that the morrow will be worse? 3 * * %X * and @ Cantt Agree. - Evening Post, Wellington.—East_anc West met, but do not seem to have mingled, when _the i Anglo-American film comedian, Charles Chaplin, ®on- versed in London with Mr. Gandhi. Their difference of opinion about the merits of machinery illustrates in s flash the difference between the Orient (or, at any rate, the Orient of Mr. Gandhi) and the Occident. Gandhli, it is cabled, opposes the use of machinery in India, preferring man« ual labor; while Chaplin, who recently broadcast his earlier privations in Lon- don as a manual worker, is naturally entranced with the pay and profits of overmachined America. There is nothing in art (?) so mae Chaj l}n«’l'tl?I f | chinelike as the bulk of the Hollywood pictures, and the gulf between them and (say) a story by Tagore is abysmal. The Chaplin-Gandhi argument could have gone on forever had not Gandhi been called toprayer, after which they parted —the comedian going to his hearty Western . dinner, the Mahatma to “& meal of goat’s milk and orange juice.” cannot be self-denying in diet and habits and rigorous in religious ex- ercises without being master of one’s self. The Western idea, on the other hand, is to be master of external ma- tur;n using machinery. Self-mastery and material-mastery are both contri- to human progress. So it may found that East and West are lves of one whole. ;w‘u ; o Maybe ‘a ‘Husband Was Driving. From the Springfleld (Mass.) Unon. ‘While looking into a milliner’s shop the other day a woman was knocked down by an auto which skidded onto the sidewalk. Husbands are calline their wives' attention to the danger - getting too close to stores disple™s+ the new styles. —————————— Sitting in Judgment. From the Roanoke Times. At one time dramatic critics used to sit on the stage. Nowadays, points out an exchange, they “sit on the author, the cast, the scenery and the produa™ And even the audience. ———t—— Diplomacy. and Prosperity. Prom the Bavannah'M News. The call has been made“for diplomacy to lead the way rity. You remember the mm mat, “O ho 7 'filfi d"m , “One who can mn% lome bacon without spilling the —ae—————— Buck Private’s Lot. From the New York Sun. ‘The ese general, Mah, says that he will “fight until death” and all the Chinese buck private has to find out 18 whose death. . % —oms tions. Yes, it's the end of everything— the grand cataclysm!™ ‘This pessimism is contagious. It is transmitted by words, and snihistes energies, dilutes courage and' paral Sy only thing w&lch can be used to come~ - Where Mixing Is Undesirable. Proth the Cofumbia (5. C.) State. - xfld thrown on dairying Y " sayg headline. Here's h A e. ere’s _hopi sealed. were already filled